e.
Planning the Work of Learners
In
the case study teacher's experience, planning the work of learners
using ICT is quite straightforward. She has access to a PC with
Internet access in her teaching room, her school's library has
a machine on the Internet and she knows that several of her learners
have Internet access at home. She has also by now looked at some
other World Wide Web sites and can show pupils the relationship
between the information on these different resources. She is therefore
comfortable about setting homework on the gathering of information,
that can be done outside the classroom, and have individuals and
pairs working in her classroom on set information-gathering tasks.
Your
case might be different. Firstly, do you have access to a computer,
a computer room or a library/learning centre where you can work
on German lessons with a full group of pupils? Secondly, can you
run a CD-ROM or access the Internet on any or all of the machines
you can get access to? There are other, technical questions, but
these are less important than the educational questions. Consider
those below before you start planning the series of lessons in
detail.
- How
long will you take to deal with the topic from start to finish?
- How
much of this time will you spend gaining access to the Internet
in a planned and structured way, and using word-processed resources
of your own?
- How
do you want to order the use of ICT for learning and assessment
- do you want it blocked or staggered, and will you need to
circulate pupils around it in circumstances where not all pupils
can use computers at once?
-
How will you plan to ensure that all pupils are spending time
using ICT for the best purposes in understanding German grammar?
- How
will you ensure that pupils do not simply 'copy and paste' from
the resources they encounter, and that they develop the higher
level skills they need for this area of GCSE?
- How
will you ensure that students avoid simply improving the presentation
of the work with ICT rather than learning better as a result
of using it?
These
questions are crucial at this stage, and you might want to discuss
them with colleagues and/or your mentor before you create a scheme
of work that includes the use of ICT, however rough the scheme
is at the beginning. Once you are happy that you have a plan of
how to use ICT effectively for the work you want to do on the
topics, you should go on to consider some lesson plans for actually
applying it in the classroom.
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2: Teaching with ICT
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