c.
Helping Learners Develop their own IT Capabilities
The
main focus of the teaching in this case study has been the comparison
of energy values in different foods, and the modelling of relationships
between the behaviour of foods under predicted conditions. In
using ICT to help with the teaching and learning of these matters,
pupils should develop aspects of their own IT capability. In particular,
they should have developed in the following areas:
-
Using hardware - the use of a temperature sensor and data logger
to measure and record the energy released from burning nuts.
- Use
of the graphical functions of the software in their work with
graphs.
- Use
of a spreadsheet to predict changes of output values depending
on changes of input values and uniformity of relation.
- Loading
software - a CD.
- Basic
skills of mouse and keyboard manipulation.
- Printing
- if the pupil was allowed to print from the data-logging software
or the spreadsheet.
- Practising
their skills in recording information systematically and clearly
using data and number processing devices.
The
exercise below is worth working through with your mentor or with
other Science colleagues working in similar fields:
Try
to identify:
- What
pupils are doing with ICT in the tasks you have set them.
-
Whether what they are doing is a routine such as moving a mouse,
a technique where they have to follow steps or a higher order
skill where they have to plan and make decisions.
-
The ways in which the demands of the work have increased from
what has been expected previously.
-
How you are going to support the pupils in learning from the
challenges you set them.
-
The areas of the IT curriculum at the pupil's key stage to see
whether work you are doing with him or her can be linked to
learning in the IT area.
 d.
Assessing Learning
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