ICT Lecture 2ICT in the Curriculum

Educational Software and Online resourcesMore on Interactive Whiteboards

Share your action plan for ICT with a colleague

Highlight any problems with achieving your action plan

Review of Action Plan

To develop understanding of the use of Interactive Whiteboards

To understand how ICT can be used in curriculum delivery the; including organisational issues

To become familiar with educational software (both local and online)

Linked Standards: Q14, Q15, Q17, Q19, Q21, Q23, Q25a, Q30

Objectives

You have thirty children going to the ICT suite, which has 14 working PCs. 13 of the PCs have working headphone sets, 1 PC has a broken set. You are going to demonstrate how to use a music making software package.

Discuss the possible organizational/ classroom management issues and how you would address them.

Issues:◦Pairings, Gaining attention, avoiding typing

when you talk, playing with wires, sharing and equal time; and safety – ensuring children stay safe

Organising ICT

The computer is on and in use...

Established routines for the mechanics of ICT - printing and saving

Planning includes ICT across the curriculum

ICT being used to meet children’s individual needs (personalised learning)

A judicious selection and application of ICT resources is used to encourage engagement with and enjoyment of learning

All children have equal opportunities to benefit from the use of ICT

What might good practice look like?

◦ www.multiverse.ac.uk exploring diversity and achievement: has key stage 1 filter

◦ www.gtce.org.uk/networks/achieve promoting diversity

◦ www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/personalisedlearning DCSF on personalised

◦ http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6003254 TES article-school computers are boring?

◦ http://foi.becta.org.uk/content_files/corporate/resources/foi/archived_publications/guide_primary_teachers.pdf BECTA report on good practice in Primary

Links

Across the Curriculum - www.primaryresources.co.uk◦Look at this website, find a really useful resource

◦What criteria would you use to evaluate it?

ICT and other subjects continued

◦www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk

◦www.snaithprimary.eril.net

◦http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/IWB/index.htm

◦ Greenwich

Other Online Teaching Resources

Why? Discuss possible dangers How? Think about possible strategies

Video-

E-Safety

Review progress with DA3 IWB Familiarisation Task

Activeboard Software Look at Kent’s Whiteboard resources

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/IWB/resources.htm

Example Powerpoint Lessons Website for Sustainability http://www.suschool.org.uk/teaching.html

Coming back to IWBs

Programmable Toys are used in EY to develop directional concepts and vocabulary. For older children also have lots of uses in Maths, Geography, Art and other subjects

For example: “mathematical” language development◦ Jo and Debbie are using the Beebot. Jo makes it go

forwards several times. Debbie then shouts, ‘Now, let’s make it go backwards and under the table.’

Video Clip and Lesson Plan

Educational Software – Beebots

Can you get it to go round your table top? Maximum perimeter?

Beebots – what’s the point?

Forward, Backwards, Right, Left Making the Roamer Move 2 GO 2 90 GO Repeating Functions R for Repeat R 4 [] 1 90[] GO

Roamer Instructions

Use Repeat to make the Roamer trace an equilateral triangle; then a hexagon; then an octagon - Is there a formula?

R n [] 1 (360/n) [] GO Where n = number of sides of the polygon

Extending Roamer Use

Look at some of the example websites recommended in Lectures 1 and 2 and consider how they could be useful to you as a beginning teacher.

Linked Activity