Part 1:
Preparing to Use ICT in Teaching
a.
Aims and Objectives
The
teacher in this case study was trying out a new unit of work for
a general IT class in year 10, where all pupils followed a programme
of IT capability development as part of their PSHE course. This
led to a short course GCSE qualification for most pupils. There
was no GCSE option course in IT. All the pupils had followed a
KS3 course in IT, and had worked with DTP, spreadsheets, flatfile
databases, and WWW searches.
His
general aims were to teach pupils to use a hypertext authoring
program to structure information in a hierarchical form, and to
teach the basic ideas of systems development in a context which
would be meaningful and relevant to the pupils in Year 10. His
specific objectives were that pupils would be able to:
- Analyse
the information needs of users of a system.
- Collect
the data that they needed.
- Structure
the data so as to make it easy for users to find out what they
want.
- Develop
their understanding of hypertext structures and use hypertext
techniques to implement their information structure.
- Test
their databases systematically and make improvements.
 b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
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