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ICT and Science Education. QTS Standards: Q: 17 Know how to use skills in ICT to support their teaching and wider professional activities Q: 25 (a) use a range of teaching strategies and resources including e-learning. History: UK National Grid for Learning (Massive investment in late 1990s). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT and Science Education
QTS Standards:
Q: 17 Know how to use skills in ICT to support their teaching
and wider professional activities
Q: 25 (a) use a range of teaching strategies and resources
including e-learning
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
History: UK National Grid for Learning(Massive investment in late 1990s)
• Schools infrastructure - £700m
• Library and community infrastructure and content - £200m
• ICT Learning Centres - £400m
• Training for teachers and librarians - £250m
• Content digitisation for the NGfL and libraries - £50m
OVER £2.3 BILLION IN TOTAL UP TO 2004
and £350+m for ‘digital content’
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Is continuing investment worthwhile?
Building Schools of the Future (in its first year (2005-6))
- £2.2 billion spent (not all on ICT) yet …
What evidence is there to support continuing use of ICT?
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Impact 2 (2002-2004)– Any answers?
75% primary pupils, 90+% secondary pupils have a computer at home
Use in school subjects – never or hardly ever
5 from 13 subjects show a small positive correlation between ICT use and added value of attainment
Use at home seems to correlate to improved attainment in school
There is no consistent relation between the average amount of ICT reported for any subject at a given key stage and its apparent effectiveness in raising standards.
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Impact 3 Becta’s Landscape review 2007 – Still no answers?
the evidence on attainment is somewhat inconsistent, although it does appear that, in some contexts, with some pupils, in some disciplines, attainment has been enhanced.
It therefore seems likely that the type of involvement is all-important.
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Where do you think that ICT can be used most effectively in science teaching?
• Having a Smartboard for every lab• Having specific computer labs • Having a laptop trolley for the science dept.• Having a class set of iPads or iPods• Having the pupils bring in their Smartphones
Vote now at www.easyvote.co.uk/vote
(the poll name is ICT)
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Pedagogy for using ICT effectively in science includes:
• ensuring that use is appropriate and ‘adds value’ to learning activities
• structuring activity while offering pupils some responsibility, choice and opportunities for active participation
• prompting pupils to think about underlying concepts and relationships; creating time for discussion and reflection
• focusing research tasks and developing skills for finding and critically analysing information
• exploiting the potential of whole class interactive teaching and encouraging pupils to share ideas and findings.
From Science Education and the Role Of ICT: Promise, Problems and Future Directions (Osborne & Hennessy, 2003)
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Role of ICT in Science (McFarlane and Sakellariou, 2002)
( i ) ASKQUESTIONS
PREDICT ANDHYPOTHESISE
( ii ) OBSERVE,MEASURE ANDMANIPULATEVARIABLES
( iii ) INTERPRETTHEIR RESULTSAND EVALUATE
SCIENTIFICEVIDENCE
WWWOrganising, presenting
and recording resultse.g. spreadsheets,
data analysis software,-databases
Word- processing inplanning
Word-processing ordesk-top publishing
in presenting aninvestigation or
writing up
Using IT in priorresearch on a topic e.g.
CD-ROM, WWW
Data- logging
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
See Chapter 9. “The Role of ICT” in How Science Works edited by Rob Toplis.
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT for Data logging
The potential roles of ICT in education
• Flash loggers and probeware
• iPad and iPhone accelerometers
• Roger Frost’s overview and ideas site– http://rogerfrost.com/
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT for Simulations
• Very popular with science teachers– Atomscope– Multimedia Science School– Boardworks
• What are the “affordances” (what kind of simulation affords what kind of learning) ?
The potential roles of ICT in education
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Sites with simulations http://phet.colorado.edu/
http://www.echalk.co.uk/
•http://www.furryelephant.com/
•http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/schools/index1.htm
http://www.explorelearning.com/
•http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/clickandclone/
• chalk
The potential roles of ICT in education
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Simulations are based on models
“A model is a simplified representation of a system, which concentrates attention on specific aspects of the system.”
Ingham and Gilbert (1991)
• Are they all they are made out to be?• See this interview from the Interactive Education Project
(Sutherland et al, 2005)
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Data from the Interactive Education Project: Science Teacher B
The potential roles of ICT in education
Interviewer: So that in both your projects as it turned out … because you planned it in the second one but you didn’t plan it in the first one … there were some discussions around the fact that the students’ understanding of the topic was actually in conflict with what was being represented in the simulation.
B. I think that getting students to check incorrect science is actually a good way of helping them learn the correct way. It’s something that I haven’t used an awful lot and I think it’s something I could develop.
They have to be critical. They’re being more active and proactive in their learning, rather then just reacting to what they’re seeing in front of them and automatically grabbing it off the web because it looks pretty. They’re being critical. And teaching critical thinking has got to be a good way forward.
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT for Creating: e.g. making your own animations and videos
The potential roles of ICT in education
• See the animations from the e-scapes project on the wiki
• See Bioethics Live! On www.beep.ac.uk for guidance
• See http://www.slowmation.com/
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT for Communicating and Sharing
• SmartBoard resources
– http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?subject=Science
• Is it really an Interactive White Board? See
http://dialogueiwb.educ.cam.ac.uk/
• Use for whole class teaching (voting systems)
– http://www.easyvote.co.uk
The potential roles of ICT in education
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Communicating and Sharing
• Online discussion between lessons
• See http://www.beep.ac.uk
• Try making podcasts or VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/
The potential roles of ICT in education
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Communicating and Sharing
• Wikis• Googledocs etc
The potential roles of ICT in education
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
ICT Magic Wikia useful Wiki that links to ICT resources on the web eg
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http://www.videojug.com/
http://www.storybricks.com/
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Other useful ICT web resources
The potential roles of ICT in education
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Look out for http://www.imvoto.com/an assessment tool using mobile phones
http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
Effective Use of ICT in science teaching and learning
Communicating and Sharing
• Teacher trainee Skyping from school science lab to university tutor
• Online whiteboard to look at ideas together
http://www.twiddla.com/
The potential roles of ICT in education