New Technology

Enhancesachievement &extending interactions with local & global communities. Engages

students in waysnot previously possible.

Technologyis a feature ofeveryday life.

Increasing digitisation of information Worldwide.

Recommendation for ICT to sit alongside literacy, numeracy and personal development at core of curriculum.

ICT= fantastic leveller among children of different abilities

Children often learn better when some form of technology is involved.

Creates new learning & teaching Possibilities.

Benefits for ICTIn school

Will children findinappropriate Materials on theInternet.?

Will childrenbecome dependent on technology to learn?

Will children lose their ability to relate to other human beings?

Lack of ICT subject specialists in Schools.

ICT - difficult to teach, and rarelygets beyond skills building.

Ensure primary school teachers Adequately trained in using ICT.

Providing ICT resources in theclassroom can be very Expensive.

Negativepoints

for ICT at school

Parents & Students:It’s the way of the modern World.

Government-Aiming to Achieve national

Curriculum.

Technology co-ordinators:More money!

Education Department /Principals:More efficientTeaching &assessment.

Stakeholders, & their interests?

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The future…

Virtual sport ... Students at Belmore South Public School playing Wii tennis.

Pic: Anthony Reginato Source: The Sunday Telegraph

The Future classroom…

• http://www.wiiclassroom.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dNc5rft4eY

Viirtual PE lessons, on Wii consoles.

The curriculum being automatically targeted to the user through an intuitive educational platform that knows every strength & each unique weakness.

Teachers will have the ability to customize the experience of the individual "user" with minimal effort.

Every student can access all the knowledge of humankind freely at any moment in time.

A world where every child has a tablet computer with ready access to the application of virtual photographic memory (internet).

New and ever-improving technologies are popping up every day and in every corner of society.

Today is an ageof exponential change.

The trends intechnology are leaving a large number of our students behind.

Imagine the future…

REFERENCES• Google images

• http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/this-is-the-future-of-sport-in-schools-wii-instead-of-pe/story-e6freuy9-1225849277763- sourced, May, 2010

• http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6014565, sourced May 2010.

• http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/technology/front_tech.htm, sourced May 2010

• http://67.208.42.96:8080/classroom-technology, sourced May 2010

• http://redbridgeprimaryit.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-does-good-look-like.html, sourced May, 2010

• http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/ictis/, sourced, May, 2010

• http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/DigitalEducationRevolution/Resources/guide/StrategicPlanning/Pages/EffectiveuseandmanagementofICT.aspx, sourced, May, 2010

• http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te800.htm, sourced May, 2010