c. Helping Learners Develop their own IT Capabilities

The development of capability in this activity involves:

• Strategies - the explicit discussion of strategy in this activity should help pupils develop skills in systematic planning, monitoring their progress towards a goal, collaborative working, and evaluating the methods and outcome of their work.
• Processes - their understanding of exploratory modelling should advance considerably, as this is the main objective of the lesson. In particular, the control of variables, and trial-and-improvement solution of problems.
• Techniques - moving around a spreadsheet using cursor, mouse and scroll bars.
• Routines - entering numeric data should become more familiar, and moving around a spreadsheet using cursor, mouse and scroll bars should become increasingly automatic.

d. Assessing Learning