Part 1:
Preparing to Use ICT in Teaching
a.
Aims and Objectives
In
this case study, the teacher's aims were to develop her pupils'
appreciation of the range of methods of gathering, managing, manipulating
and expressing quantitative data, most particularly focusing on
some of the economic aspects of the Hollywood film industry. The
pupils in this case are from a variety of GNVQ programmes, including
Media, but the assumption on the teacher's part is that pupils
working in Business, Health and Leisure will be able to identify
with the work being done by its relevance to their own interest
in films and film stars.
As
the case study unfolds, we will see occasional points at which
the work done on film can be applied to the other commercial areas,
but all pupils in this case study work on the same tasks initially.
Specifically, the teacher wanted pupils to be able to:
- Investigate
the Hollywood industry to gain a sense of its economic importance.
- Describe
and explain the respective earnings of a variety of film stars'
movies.
- Compare
film earnings within the Hollywood sector.
- Present
at least some of their findings in the form of a comparative
spreadsheet.
- Transfer
some findings from spreadsheet format to Word document format
for inclusion in a project.
- Apply
the methods of data-gathering, management, manipulation and
expression to issues within pupils' own GNVQ vocational areas
- namely Business, Health and Leisure.
Questions
for Consideration
- If
you currently deal with this area of work in the classroom,
or with an analogous or related area, how do you do so?
- If
you used real examples of comparisons between film stars how
would you manage use of and access to these?
- What
are the main problems you would expect to encounter when you
work with examples of information about film in a classroom
of mixed vocational areas?
- Which
parts of the new Curriculum 2000 Specifications for KS do you
think this case study work will help most with?
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
 b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
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