c.
Selecting ICT Resources
"Teaching
is constantly looking for new methods of interaction and new sources
of information to motivate and raise the levels of achievement
by pupils. The Internet can provide a powerful learning tool but
not without careful preparation and planning."
(Corbett, 1997).
You
do not have to change what you teach or what the pupils may learn.
But changing how it is done could mean it is learnt more effectively.
The Internet can enhance the teaching and learning of this topic
by:
- The
excitement of search and discovery.
- Encouraging
pupils to learn on their own. "… the ability to link pages to
with one another by hyperlinks is one of the main characteristics
of the WWW that has profound implications for users, as it breaks
with traditional sequential and linear taxonomies of text composition
and opens up extensive opportunities to determine one's own
pathways through the information available." (Pachler, 1999
p.59)
-
Improving the relationship between modern technology and science
in the pupils' minds.
- Developing
pupils' IT capability along with other key skills. The use of
ICT enables the pupils to focus on systematic enquiry in collecting,
organising, storing and retrieving information. They also had
the opportunity to communicate scientific information in a number
of different ways.
Questions
for Consideration
- How
many of the options above do you feel comfortable about at the
moment, and could you suggest any others?
- What
are the pitfalls, as you see them, to using the World Wide Web
to gather background information?
- Look
again at the objectives for this case study - do you think any
of them match up with the options listed?
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
 d.
Developing Your Own Knowledge of the Resources
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