b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
There
seems to be a wide range of options for dealing with this topic.
The teacher could:
- Use
no ICT (or other technology) at all.
- Use
textbooks and circulate around the room facilitating the students
learning.
- Use
a word processor package to create worksheets for the topics,
perhaps placing some prompts to guide the student through the
skills they require to complete a task.
- Use
a spreadsheet package such as Excel or Lotus 123, to present
the student with a range of questions and scenarios that the
student is able to manipulate and receive instant feedback on.
Of
course, any combination of the options is also possible, but we
shall discuss them all, and your work will involve using several
of the options alone and together.
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.
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
 c.
Selecting ICT Resources
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