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
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
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
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