e.
Planning the Work of Learners
In
the case study teacher's experience, planning the work of learners
on the disc is quite straightforward. She has access to a room
where her class can share computers on a one-between-two basis,
she knows the CD-ROM quite well, and she has copied some material
from it into her own worksheets. She has also by now looked at
some other 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 English lessons
with a full group of pupils? Secondly, can you run the CD-ROM
on all of the machines using the school network - you are allowed
by law to do this, but will your network support it? 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 type of coursework from
start to finish, including drafting and final preparation?
- How
much of this time will you spend using the CD-ROM, 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 preparation of work?
- How
will you ensure that pupils do not simply 'copy and paste' from
the resources they encounter, and that they learn what they
should develop and demonstrate the skills that they need to?
- 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 you 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, 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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