Part 1:
Preparing to Use ICT in Teaching
a.
Aims and Objectives
The
teacher's aim for the sake of this case study is to develop learners'
ability to understand some of the relations between Religious
belief and social life. In this case, the learners are Key Stage
4 pupils in a mixed gender and mixed ethnicity urban comprehensive
school and they are working on World Religions. As we meet the
teacher, he has used with a range of groups a variety of methods
of promoting understanding in this area, including books, newspapers
and other print materials, television and video programmes and
his own word-processed materials.
Specifically,
the teacher wants the pupils at this phase of their development
to:
- Name
the major World Religions and some minor Religions.
- Identify
a range of beliefs within each of the Religions, including:
-
Some attitudes to specific social and interpersonal behaviours.
- Some
approaches to basic features of human life such as diet
and survival.
- The
sources of some attitudes, whether in sacred texts, other
sources of law or other traditions of behaviour.
- The
significance of the belief to the religion's structure and
performance.
- Identify
reasons why behaviours determined by religious commitment compliment
and conflict with secular expectations.
The
teacher wishes to concentrate on the following in order to explore
the questions:
- Seventh
Day Adventism
- Mormonism
- The
Jehovah's Witness Movement
- Judaism
- Sikhism
- Buddhism
- Islam
- Hindus
Questions
for Consideration
- How
do or would you currently deal with this area of work in the
classroom?
- Do
you use any ICT based methods to gather and present information,
and how do you manage use of these?
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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