adding value with ict in school presenter(s) event location and date
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Adding value with ICT in school
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Event location and date
Supporting teaching and learning
ICT offers opportunities to:• access a huge range and variety of materials • stimulate and engage• increase the range of interactions• address hard to teach concepts• interaction with wider range of peers, parents and others• the variation in pace and approach to review
ICT in teaching and learning
• Teacher led with computer and projector, etc.– Sourcing material (e.g. video, images, audio from
the internet) for investigation– Teaching specific material– Engaging students– Class discussion and analysis– Collecting views, thoughts, etc.
e.g. brain storming– Hard to teach topics
Japanese Tsunami survivors
Hard to teach example
Range of opportunities 2
Recording, analysing and synthesising•Recording and observation – camera’s, mobile phones, laptops, for visual and location information.•Accessing and selecting information and encouraging critical selection from the internet – e.g. web quests•Organisation and analysis•Developing/writing rules•Extended writing and carrying an argument
Web quest example
Hard to teach topics
ICT can support those topics which have always been difficult to teachConceptually complex areas of learning –Abstract concepts which are difficult to illustrate in the real world Topics that use language that alienates or confuses (for instance subject-specific vocabulary)Topics that stretch learners or take them into unfamiliar territoryInherently repetitive or tedious material
Connecting with others
Questions
Presentation from local head
Local example
Questions
Examples of
Example 1Texting systems with parents
The parent premiumParental involvement in a child’s schooling between ages 7 and 16 is a more powerful force than family background, size of family and level of parental education.Feinstein, L & Symons, J. Oxford Economic papers, 51 (1999)
Achievement Parent effect School effect
Age 7 0.29 0.05
Age 11 0.27 0.21
Age 16 0.14 0.51
Effect of parents / effect of school
Example 2Teachers sharing and improving materials
Example 3Connecting with students around the world
Many examples including:•Culture in a box•Travel guides•A day in the life•Green schools
British Council SchoolsOnline
22/01/2012 British Council Nairobi Training 18
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