The following article was written by a IT teacher blogging about more exciting ways of teaching ICT at school. ICT has been criticised heavily in recent months by the government and in the media with computing being cited as a better qualification. It is an interesting personal account from a practitioner researcher with the main trust being that ICT should be taught more discretely through independent projects facilitated by the teacher.
I like this approach but can't help thinking that the divisive timetable structure between subjects areas only serves to isolate the true potential of ICT and its cross curricular potential.
If there was more access to ICT facilities by subject specialists and the possibility of team teaching, then I'm sure that it would be used more creatively.
Here's the link to the article:
http://largerama.creativeblogs.net/2012/04/02/why-ict-should-still-be-taught-in-schools-and-a-way-to-do-it-properly/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Showing posts with label ict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ict. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Using online mapping software
In this presentation by Ollie Bray at the TeachMeet conference in Havering in 2009, he outlines his use of online software such as Google Earth and methods of geo-tagging as a tool in the classroom.
Goollery - Projects involving the use of Google
Goollery is a site that documents the many projects that have been created using google-related applications. Below is an example of one such use where the user has created alphabet shapes using Google Earth. Please click here to visit the Gollery site.
Teaching through Animation
GoAnimate, the web 2.0 free animation software site, is excellent and very easy tool to edit with. I had a little play with it for a year 8 ICT lesson in 2009. Here's my result... albeit not the funniest of comic animations:
GoAnimate.com: Ain't No Respect by Mr Z
The students really enjoyed using it to create narratives. Here is an example by Oni, who got a little carried away with some fairly 'unethical situations'..... which might be interesting to explore in Citizenship!
GoAnimate.com: Hayley And Marley by MszOnzi
GoAnimate.com: Ain't No Respect by Mr Z
The students really enjoyed using it to create narratives. Here is an example by Oni, who got a little carried away with some fairly 'unethical situations'..... which might be interesting to explore in Citizenship!
GoAnimate.com: Hayley And Marley by MszOnzi
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