b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
In
this case, the teacher did not really consider not using ICT -
it seemed natural to teach the ideas of systems development through
the process itself. The only question was what sort of a system,
and what software should be used. He considered letting pupils
choose the type of project to work on and what software to use,
but decided that it would be best if they all worked together
as this was the first time they had met the systems development
process.
He
also considered using software that pupils were familiar with,
but decided that he should introduce some new ideas to build on
their existing skills. He felt that building web pages with a
hypertext authoring system would be a good way of broadening pupils'
software concepts and techniques, as well as providing a tool
for implementing a system for others to use.
Questions
for Consideration
- Which
of the following features of ICT are likely to contribute to
learning in this topic?
- speed
and automatic functions
- capacity
and range
- provisional
nature of information stored, processed and presented
-
interactive way in which information is stored, processed
and presented
- Could
you achieve the same effect using other aids to learning?
- Consider
the relative merits of spreadsheets, flatfile/relational databases,
hypertext database, control technology, Logo programming or
any other type of software tool, which might enable pupils to
implement a system for others to use.
- This
teacher decided that the same type of structure for data would
be used in all the pupils' information systems.
- What
would be the advantages of giving pupils a choice of structure
and tools?
- What
disadvantages would this have?
 c.
Selecting ICT Resources
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