e.
Planning the Work of Learners
In
the case study teacher's experience, planning the work of learners
on the web is quite straightforward. He has access to a room where
his class can share computers on a one-between-two basis, he knows
how to use a variety of CD's quite well, and he has copied some
material from various CD's and web sites into his own worksheets.
He has also by now looked at the currently active Bized Web site
and can show pupils the relations between the resources from these
different areas.
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 a CD
- if you are able to access these services on a 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 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 of Business Studies?
- How
will you ensure that pupils do not simply 'copy and paste' unreflectively
from the resources they encounter, and that they learn what
they should learn about the work?
- 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 your
own area of 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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