ICTin

Teaching

Andrew Withey

awithey@plymstockschool.org.uk

www.plymstockschool.org.uk

Why is this Important to you?

• ICT competency is integral to the NC• Education has to be relevant to the real

world & that means teaching ICT• As you are no doubt aware its can be

embarrassing how much the students know

• It really can revolutionise so many aspects of our work

• Underestimating it could be foolish……

Predicting The Future

“This ‘telephone’ has too many

shortcomings to be seriously considered as

a means of communication.”

“The device is inherently of no value

to us.”

Western Union Memo 1870

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”

Warner Bros. Founder 1920

“I think that there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM

1943

The Digital Revolution

• The Web doubles every 90 days

We all know the numbers

• Internet use is going up at the rate of about 140 persons a second and almost 72 million a year

•The processing power of computers doubles every eighteen months

The Digital Revolution

Radio

TV

Cable

Web

How long to reach 50 million subscribers?

Years

4 14 17 38

The Digital Revolution• C4S Convergence: Computers, Communication, Consumer Electronics, Content, Services

• By 2008 an average adult will daily consume

- 2700 calories of food

- 3 litres of fluid

- 30 GB of digital information

• Unlimited bandwidth: 6.4 Terabit/s (10 ) over a single sub-fibre (= all the TV programmes of the world plus all voice communication)

• Soon bandwidth will exceed computer power!

- Processors: 2X in 18 months

- Bandwidth: 2X in 9 months

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“There’s nothing worse than feeling left behind - when everyone is talking about something but, for you, it just doesn’t gel. ICT has had this effect over the last few years. Everywhere you look. Virtual this, cyber that. But, unless you have been connected, you are probably still in the dark. Getting to grips with ICT can be daunting but it’s a short (though steep) learning curve.”

Steve Lepper, The Internet for Beginners.

ICT In The Classroom• There are three ways

to view ICT: • ‘I Can’t Teach using this

*#*@! Machine!’ no longer an option

• ‘I Can Teach using this wonderful technology because I’m a smart arse!!’

• ‘I CanTeach and just get by ….. Because now I have to and it might just help me’

Why Use ICT In The Classroom?

• For the last 15 years, the Western world has experienced future shock.

• An ICT Revolution has taken place which has changed the computer from:

• a toy - do you remember the Atari Consoles?

• to a tool - the word processor• to a medium for life

ICT can bring teaching alive

The multimedia effects can add

style, pace and fun to a lesson.

It encourages experienced staff to experiment with new teaching styles & to share good practice.

National Grid for Learning

• In response to these changes the government set up the National Grid for Learning. NGfL’s specific targets for 2002 include:

• every school to be linked to the Internet• 50% of pupils to have Internet and e-mail

access • 75% of teachers to have Internet and e-mail

access• Communications with Schools

by Government agencies and LEA’s to be predominantly electronichttp://www.ngfl.gov.uk/

National Grid for Learning

• It has overseen basic ICT training for all teachers (SFE & RM Training)

• Initiate a focus on the Internet to make the UK ‘preeminent in its provision’

• It also includes within its remit the policy of life long learning.

• In Schools it is to encompass both curriculum and administration use.

Using I.C.T. - A Practical Approach

We all feel the pressure to use ICT in the classroom but, think before you act:

• What are the advantages/disadvantages of using I.C.T for the student?

• What are the advantages/disadvantages of using I.C.T. the teacher?

• How much do you know & how much do the students know?

I.C.T. at MY SCHOOL

What is on offer to be used &some examples of what can

be achieved?

I.C.T. at MY SCHOOL

• ICT suites capable of sitting an entire teaching group

• Faculty suites with around a dozen terminals in each

• ICT literate students• Interactive White (Smart)

Boards• RM Easy Link/Web Mail• CD’s/MP3• DVD’s• Quizdom• Microsoft XP

• Approx. 275 + networked terminals with Internet access

• Multiple CD Rom server• Shared Work Area• An evolving Intranet• Broadband technology• Technical support• Digital Cameras• Digital Video Recorders• Portal• Digital Photocopiers

Technical support &ICT literate students

These should always be your first port of call when tackling any ICT problems that you may have. As a teacher, the natural tendency maybe to steer away from admitting your ignorance, but ICT moves so quickly you can’t expect to keep abreast of all the changes.

Students are a great resource of talent regarding ICT that should be tapped into.

RM Tutorial Software• Half way house

between the Lecture Theatre & the Interactive Whiteboard

• Overcomes the problem of students independence with computers at the start of the lesson.

• Separate programs are available for each of the computer suites.

Students + PC’s -Does this intimidate you?

Microsoft Office Softwaresome ideas...

• Word - get students to type their work

• Power Point - an alternative presentation tool/revision guides

• Excel - spreadsheets and databases

• E-mail -students to send answers/complete SWA documents/set homework

Word

Worksheets that can be typed on, printed off, e-mailed etc

PowerPoint

The Battle of Hastings, 1066

Unsuitable for horsemen

Harold Army forms a shield

Wall

William’s Horsemen

William’s Archers

William’s Spearmen & Foot soldiers

Harold’s Housecarls

Fyrd: Part Time Soldiers

Excel

Used as a teaching or administration tool

E-Mail

Communication between teachers

Communication between class & home with worksheets attached

C D ROM'ssome ideas….

• Most schools have a multi CD ROM server.

• New CDs can be installed by request.• Students can be tutored through them

using the RM Tutorial software. • Worksheets can be developed to support

research tasks. (e.g. KKK)• A support to existing research methods

(e.g. MofUK overview lesson)

Worksheets developed to support research tasks

Shared Work Areasome ideas...

• All material is ROM.• Easy to manage.• A location for all types of

resource e.g. RS texts, History worksheets

• £££ consumables £££• Can stop the paper chase• Can be used in conjunction

with e-mail. • Resources are easy to

produce• Can be easily differentiated

for both students and staff

The 20th Century Shared Work Area

USE OF CD’s\MP3 Files

You may regard this as the broadest definition of ICT but with modern PC’s having both CD and DVD technology one can enhance lessons through the

use of music to compliment teaching

An empathetic exercise conducted with or without music. You decide which is the most effective.

USE OF DVD’s

Most modern PC’s can play DVD’s making cueing footage very easy and transitions smoother. Both DVD and CD and another dimension to your teaching

Video to DVD

Digi - Keys

RM Easy Link/Web Mail

• RM Easy Link/Web Mail enables you to use the Internet to access files on a network/your e-mail from a computer that is not a network workstation

• In plain English, you can access your work files in school from any computer in the world via the Internet

Smart Boards/Projectors

At Plymstock the History Department has just gained one of these tools, plus two projectors. It is particularly effective with PPT Presentations, Online Lessons & interactive web pages + it reduces the paper that gets magnetically drawn to your desk

Digital PhotographyWhat was advanced technology 3 years ago is now commonplace and easily accessible. It can enhance your teaching, display work and serve as a motivational tool for students. Here it is shown being used for recording exemplar material in my teaching and students learning

DIGITAL VideoThis term we have been given a Digital Video Reorder and an I-MAC computer. The possibilities are really only limited by your imagination. We are now looking at filming our best lessons, because done well, they are better than what you can get professionally. Please use our home page to find out more.

Digital Photocopiers

• Entire book chapters of text scanned into word documents

• Printed only when students require them

Quizdom

• http://www.quizdom.com/

The SWGfL Portal

• https://portal.swgfl.org.uk/login/login.aspx

• http://www.swgfl.org.uk/learning/portal/portalsub.asp?page=support

External Hardrives

• Essential in making a complete back up of all your work

• Networks fail

• Work gets accidentally deleted

Internet

• The Big Unknown!• In English alone, estimated 700 billion

pages of information. • An excellent research tool in disciplined

hands• Can be complicated for less able/young

children/bewildered teachers.• However, a source of excellent

materials for the classroom (teacher and student)- e.g. BBC Bitesize, SchoolsHistory.

Useful Internet Sites

See handout

Useful Internet Sites

For more useful links go to www.plymstockschool.org.uk

Intranet

• An in-house Internet - designed by teachers for teacher-student use.

• Quicker access to material.

• Vetted material. • Massive scope for

development

The History Intranet

Use of Intranet in the History Department

Designed to ……• a site fully integrated with the curriculum taught by the

Department across Key Stages 3,4, & 5.

• a site that would be easily accessible to all students following the same course structure as they are taught in school.

• A site to be used as a complementary tool for school learning i.e. a location for differentiated materials, additional research, exemplar material and teaching

presentations.

Use of Intranet in the History Department

Designed to……• A site that could house the expanding support materials

found on the Internet.• A site that would fulfil some of the NGfL’s criteria ie. A

site of use to staff as well as students.

• A version of our Intranet site to be placed on line and

accessible on the Internet. • A site with flexibility so that it can be changed and

adapted e.g the new A level specifications