c. Adapting the Resources for Different Learners or Work

This part of the case study follows from what has just been said about evaluation of resources. If a piece of software, a World Wide Web site or a dedicated piece of courseware can be used for more than one group of learners or across more than one area of work, it follows that it is more valuable to you in your work.

In the case study, the teacher found the web sites useful for this particular group on this particular task, but also useful with the same group in other areas of their Geography work. It is simply a matter of spending time with the pupils exploring the web sites. The web sites and the spreadsheet were also useful across a range of another groups. Pupils working across the range in Geography need to be able to generate models, and what you do with a spreadsheet package as a teacher depends only on what you want the pupils to achieve and how creative you want to be. You can also take images from the web and insert them into spreadsheets to enliven this process a little, but you can use the spreadsheet principle to create a wide range of modelling exercises, very much more easily than physical calculation work.

With this in mind, think about how you would complete the grid on the following page, and discuss it with your mentor.

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