- This work had been planned
to coincide with the historical topic on Ancient Egypt (Unit5g).
It can easily be adapted to other topics studied throughout
the year e.g. The Seashore Environment, The Human Body, A Locality
Study.
The flexibility of the software, and the resources extracted
from the World Wide Web undoubtedly enhanced the completed work.
- The children could not have
produced work with such an impact had they used a pencil and
paper methods. Linked pages are clearly specific to ICT and
need to be seen working. The excitement of seeing the links
work helped to keep the children's interest and enthusiasm.
- The work was designed to consolidate
existing skills in order to develop new ones. This proved to
be effective as little time needed to be spent covering old
ground. They saved, retrieved and edited their work effectively.
- Children were grouped by ability
to ensure that no one felt threatened or was forced to take
a back seat. The better children completed the task first in
order to be available to help others. Children prefer to be
helped by (and help) other children if it is at all possible.
There was a differentiated task available and the children were
able to move task if it was necessary.
If the children required help they were able to either read
the Textease pupil guidelines or call upon their peers.
- The activity allowed the children
to acquire the expected skills in the three identified areas
of History, English and ICT.
- This activity was so successful
that my expectation of what children are capable of achieving
when using ICT is even higher than it was before. It is an extremely
motivating method of delivering the curriculum.
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