b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
There
seems to be a wide range of options for dealing with this topic.
The teacher could:
- Use
discussion only, and not use any ICT (or other technology) at
all.
- Use
a CD-ROM to gain access to background material - either general
material such as can be found on typical encyclopaedias, or
more focussed resources in CD subject-specific collections.
- Use
the World Wide Web to gather resources.
- Use
the World Wide Web for the resources, and download the information
in such a way as to make it usable in a spreadsheet.
- Use
a spreadsheet and a Word document to manage the information,
regardless of how it has been acquired.
Of
course, any combination of the options is also possible, but we
shall discuss them all, and your work will involve using several
of the options alone and together.
Questions
for Consideration
- How
many of the options above do you feel comfortable about at the
moment, and could you suggest any others?
- What
are the benefits to using a CD-ROM for background information?
- What
are the pitfalls as you see them to using the World Wide Web
to gather background or 'live' information?
- Look
again at the objectives for this case study - do you think any
of them match up with the options listed?
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
c.
Selecting ICT Resources
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