e.
Planning the Work of Learners
In
the case study teacher's experience, planning the work of learners
using ICT is quite straightforward. She has access to a room where
her class can access a computer each. She knows how to use a variety
of CD's quite well and by now has looked at some World Wide Web
sites and can show her pupils the main steps to accessing the
newspaper sites that she thinks most relevant to their learning.
Your
case might be different. Firstly, do you have access to a computer,
a computer room or a library/learning centre where you can work
with a full group of pupils? Secondly, can you run a CD or access
the Internet on any or all of the machines you can get access
to? There are other, technical questions, but these are less important
than the educational questions. Consider those below before you
start planning the series of lessons in detail.
- How
long will you take to deal with this area of work from start
to finish, including the preparation of materials to support
the learners needs?
- How
much of this time will you spend using a CD, gaining access
to the internet in a planned and structured way, and using word-processed
resources of your own?
- How
do you want to order the use of ICT for learning and assessment
- do you want it blocked or staggered, and will you need to
circulate pupils around it in circumstances where not all pupils
can use computers at once?
- How
will you plan to ensure that all pupils are spending time using
ICT for the best purposes in their learning?
- How
will you ensure that pupils are able to interact with the resources
and there is room for student centred learning rather than just
a demonstration?
- How
will you ensure that students avoid simply improving the presentation
of the work with ICT rather than learning new skills as a result
of using it?
These
questions are crucial at this stage, and you might want to discuss
them with colleagues and/or your mentor before you create a scheme
of work that includes the use of ICT, however rough the scheme
is at the beginning. Once you are happy that you have a plan of
how to use ICT effectively for the work you want to do on creating
news articles, you should go on to consider some lesson plans
for actually applying it in the classroom.
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2: Teaching with ICT
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