Adding value with ICT in school Presenter(s) Event location and date

Supporting teaching and learning ICT offers opportunities to: access a huge range and variety of materials stimulate and engage increase the range of interactions address hard to teach concepts interaction with wider range of peers, parents and others the variation in pace and approach to review

ICT in teaching and learning Teacher led with computer and projector, etc. –Sourcing material (e.g. video, images, audio from the internet) for investigation –Teaching specific material –Engaging students –Class discussion and analysis –Collecting views, thoughts, etc. e.g. brain storming –Hard to teach topics Japanese Tsunami survivors

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Range of opportunities 2 Recording, analysing and synthesising Recording and observation – camera’s, mobile phones, laptops, for visual and location information. Accessing and selecting information and encouraging critical selection from the internet – e.g. web quests Organisation and analysis Developing/writing rules Extended writing and carrying an argument

Web quest example

Hard to teach topics ICT can support those topics which have always been difficult to teach Conceptually complex areas of learning – Abstract concepts which are difficult to illustrate in the real world Topics that use language that alienates or confuses (for instance subject-specific vocabulary) Topics that stretch learners or take them into unfamiliar territory Inherently repetitive or tedious material

Connecting with others

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Example 1 Texting systems with parents

The parent premium Parental involvement in a child’s schooling between ages 7 and 16 is a more powerful force than family background, size of family and level of parental education. Feinstein, L & Symons, J. Oxford Economic papers, 51 (1999) AchievementParent effectSchool effect Age Age Age Effect of parents / effect of school

Example 2 Teachers sharing and improving materials

Example 3 Connecting with students around the world

Many examples including: Culture in a box Travel guides A day in the life Green schools British Council SchoolsOnline 22/01/2012British Council Nairobi Training18

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