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Extend and enhance digital strategy, teaching and/or learning with expertise and experience.
Dedicated to empowering schools, academies, and colleges by providing educational technology consultation services. Together, leveraging technology to enhance experience within your given context.
Providing practical and strategic expertise for impactful digital teaching and learning, collaboratively leading and implementing innovative strategies within a school environment. Unlike some consultancy that only work with you on conception, I prefer to collaborate through to completion and sustain success.
WHY
OPT FOR A DIGITAL CONSULTANT?
Empower Staff
Increase digital confidence and competence across your staff with purposeful and personable professional learning, all carefully considering workload and progressive towards the agreed strategy and vision.
Impactful Implementation
No student's education should be fully digitised. This presents an opportunity for schools and staff to carefully consider the purpose and pedagogical justification for the use of technology.
Strategic Leadership
Collaboratively create a digital strategy and vision with achievable and actionable innovation and implementation. Aligned to your context and SIP/SEF.
Curriculum Development
Develop a curriculum bespoke to your context and demographic, all to support your students' education and future employability. Create a holistic digital curriculum that develops competencies, skills and knowledge in line with the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report.
WHO
WOULD YOU BE WORKING WITH?
JAMES BATTEN
BA(HONS) - NPQH
Currently working as a Senior Leader responsible for Digital Teaching and Learning (Foundation Stage 1 to Year 13) for an innovative school in Dubai, UAE.
Previously employed as Trust Lead for Digital at a large 27-school Multi-Academy Trust across the South-coast of the UK.
Passionate about leveraging technology to extend and enhance education.
No matter your context, a well-considered digital strategy will help to envisage, explore, plan, embed and sustain effective use of technology.
Whether your vision is to enhance accessibility, leverage AI, implement a 1:1 scheme, develop a digital curriculum or embed consistent digital practices, let's collaborate!
HOW
CAN WE COLLABORATE?
Collaborative and Bespoke
Our consultation is collaborative and context relevant. No collaboration is off-the-shelf as we intend to address the specific needs and goals of your School or Trust, making it bespoke to your context and demographic of staff and student.
Innovative Solutions
Usually innovation comes with cost or compromise, but with valuable heinsight, expertise and experience of digital innovation we can mitigate the risks that many have not foreseen.
Professional Development
Discover the transformative impact of our large-group, small-group or individual professional development. Designed to equip staff with the knowledge and skills to leverage educational technology and sustain impact long after our collaboration.
Intention, Implemention...
and importantly Impact!
Discover the transformative impact of our large-group, small-group or individual professional development. Designed to equip staff with the knowledge and skills to leverage educational technology and sustain impact long after our collaboration.
WHAT
HAVE WE BEEN WORKING ON?
Application of AI Framework for School and Sector Leaders
Originally a collaborative project with Big Education UK, and endorsed by Rose Luckin, CEO of Educate Ventures Research. The Application of AI Framework was carefully created to support sector and school leaders in their application of artificial intelligence.
Together, when used and implemented with an accompanying AI Policy, Strategic Action Plan and CPD it provides purpose, potential and perspective and helps to mitigate the risk, leverage its potential and instil intelligence of AI.
For more information and for further explanation and articulation use the contact form below...
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One:One or Shared Device Scheme
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Implementing and embedding a One:One Scheme across a school or trust can close the digital divide, enhance student education and employability, yet it requires strategic and financial planning, change management, a clear policy and purpose, stakeholder training (including parents), considered communication and consisent procedure and practice.
Whether you are gradually rolling out a One:One Device Scheme or increasing the access to devices across the school, we can help explore appropriate devices, lead the CPD, consider the environmental, financial, health and societal implications and ensure all stakeholders buy into the scheme.
For more information on how I have managed this change before use the contact form below...
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Digital Curriculum
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It is essential for a school and/or trust to create, embed and lead a digital curriculum that is holistic and relevant. Not only relevant to the ever-changing digital ecosystem and technological advances, but also to the context of the school and the demographic that you serve.
Composing a curriculum that covers the knowledge, skill and application for the English Curriculum for Computing is the first step, keeping it relevant to technological advances (such as Robotics, AI and XR) is the next, and better still, ensuring that your curriculum is bespoke to you and your School's values is essential. Computing and STEAM lend themselves brilliantly to project-based learning, which presents opportunities for students to develop values and competencies that ensure they are future-ready.
To collaborate and develop your own primary, secondary or through-school curriculum, use the contact form below...
GLASS Model
Instill Transparent Use of AI
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A study into Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (Gonsalves, 2025) found that 74% of students failed to declare AI use. But, when instructors explained their own AI use and boundaries, students were more likely to disclose AI use (Petricini et al., 2025). Supporting Petricini, Ramos (2025) found that “disclosure increased metacognitive reflection and ethical reasoning”. Gil‑Marín & Troeger (2025) via the Experimental Economics Study demonstrated that students often hide AI use because they believe others (including teachers) disapprove.
The Application of AI Framework (Batten, 2026) states that transparent use of AI requires “clear communication and explainability with all stakeholders when, for what and how AI was used.”
Understanding and using the GLASS Model and icons will create a culture of openness and honesty benefitting academic integrity. The GLASS Model’s icons represent when, for what and how AI has been used, and subsequently become the catalyst of conversation around acceptable and accountable AI used.
For more information on how to access to and implement the GLASS Model use the contact form below...
Contact Us
Reach out to discuss your intentions for collaboration.
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