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

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Presentation from local head

Local example

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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

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