Successful Teaching with Successful Teaching with ICT in the Primary ICT in the Primary

ClassroomClassroom

Steve Moss, Assistant Education Director (ICT) Partnerships for Schools

3 ways in which ICT can 3 ways in which ICT can make a differencemake a difference

3 ways in which ICT has the capacity to 3 ways in which ICT has the capacity to enhance teaching and learning in enhance teaching and learning in classrooms significantly.classrooms significantly. The capacity to present or represent ideas The capacity to present or represent ideas

dynamically or in multiple formsdynamically or in multiple forms The facility for providing feedback to pupils The facility for providing feedback to pupils

as they are workingas they are working The capacity to present information in easily The capacity to present information in easily

changed formschanged forms

How the model worksHow the model works

Presenting information in easily changed forms

Immediate feedback

Representing information dynamically or in multiple forms

Questionin

Questionin

ggModelling

Modelling

InteractionsInteractions

ICT – Learning and Teaching

Using ICT as a teacher tool.

Demonstrating

Modelling

Accessing and analysing

Presenting, re-presenting and communicating

Testing and confirming

Children don’t learn by doing.Children don’t learn by doing.

They learn by thinking about They learn by thinking about what they are doing.what they are doing.

Gyorgy Polya Gyorgy Polya

Using ICT to support learning

Problem solving

Evaluation

Creativity

Enquiry

Reasoning

Information processing

Smart Teaching with ICTSmart Teaching with ICTThe time taken to complete a task bears The time taken to complete a task bears

no relation to the learning gains.no relation to the learning gains.

Use ICT to increase the amount of Use ICT to increase the amount of learning and thinking time and to reduce learning and thinking time and to reduce the time which some activities takethe time which some activities take

Use ICT to quickly create differentiated Use ICT to quickly create differentiated activities, especially for consolidation and activities, especially for consolidation and practicepractice

How to teach well with ICTHow to teach well with ICT

Learn the skillsLearn the skills Get the right equipmentGet the right equipment Use your built-in “crap detector”!Use your built-in “crap detector”! Remember that ICT is just like any other Remember that ICT is just like any other

teaching resourceteaching resource Use ICT discriminatingly to help you Use ICT discriminatingly to help you

teach “difficult” knowledge and skills.teach “difficult” knowledge and skills.