e.
Planning the Work of Learners
In
the case study teacher's experience, planning the work of learners
using the disc supplied or the web is quite straightforward. She
has access to a room where her class can share computers on a
one-between-two basis, she knows how to use a CD and how to transfer
data between applications, and she has copied some material from
web sites into her own worksheets. She has also by now looked
at a range of World Wide Web sites and can show pupils the relations
between the information on these different resources.
Your
case might be different. Firstly, do you have access to a computer
room or learning centre where you can work on Business Studies
lessons with a full group of pupils? Secondly, can you run any
CD on all of the machines using your school's network? 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 production of homework if this is relevant?
- 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
processor or spreadsheet 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 of Business Studies
skills?
- How
will you ensure that pupils do not simply 'copy and paste' from
the resources they encounter, and that they learn what they
should learn about the work in terms of the objectives set?
- How
will you ensure that students avoid simply improving the presentation
of the work with ICT rather than learning better 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 Business
Studies, you should go on to consider some lesson plans for actually
applying it in the classroom.
 Part
2: Teaching with ICT
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