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 encourage
learners to develop meaning from current news events and discuss
with others a variety of topics making the headlines. The teacher
has decided to carry out this activity as an intensive activity.
There needs to be a limited time interval between the start and
completion of the activity due to the complexity of news events
changing on a daily basis. As we meet the teacher, she has used
a variety of methods of promoting discussion, including newspapers
- local and national.
The
teacher has also taped some local and national news events that
the learners have watched on video. The learners have also been
involved in making their own news events relating to their own
life experience and those relating to their local community.
Specifically,
the teacher wants the learners to carry out a range of tasks suitable
to their ability level. The following are a list of aims that
could be met by a number of students over a wide ability range:
- Browse
news stories from a variety of available resources - newspapers
(local and national), video, radio and the Internet.
- Relate
to a specific, or number of, stories by providing a personal
verbal account of the chosen article.
- Search
for graphics/symbols to be used next to the news article.
- Print
an article from the Internet.
- Identify
keywords from the chosen article.
- Produce
a personal account of the story. Differentiation will be needed
here, as some of the learners will be able to carry out the
task with limited support. Others may need wordlists and symbolic
support to identify words.
- Utilize
a variety of text formats to distinguish the headlines.
- Compile
stories of all the learners in the class to make a form of newspaper.
Questions
for Consideration
- How
do 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?
- What
are the main problems encountered by learners when they work
at finding information and producing text to structure the information
that they have found?
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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