How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils?
This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology experts, this invaluable new resource will enable you to use ICT effectively to make lessons more accessible, motivating and fun.
With fifty illustrated case studies and twenty starter activities, this practical resource will help you to introduce new technology into the inclusive classroom. It has been specifically designed to help develop your pupils’ key skills, such as problem solving, developing concepts and communicating to different audiences. In each activity, the authors show why and how a particular resource was used and show how similar techniques can be implemented to open up the curriculum to your learners.
The authors include timely and realistic advice on how to use a range of technologies from the cheap and cheerful – and even free – to more sophisticated and specialist packages. Find out about:
podcasting
digital animation
iPods and iPads
dance mat technology
digital storytelling
wikis
online reading schemes
sat nav
story boarding
games and gaming
mobile phones
art packages
using sound
visualisers
Whether you’re already techno-savvy or looking to get started with ICT, this book is full of brilliant ideas on how to engage learners of all abilities using technology. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to integrate creative uses of ICT with the curriculum, this book will prove invaluable.
Contents
ICT in education: the road ahead - Ray Barker BESA Why you need this book About the authors Part 1: 50 Brilliant Ideas Brilliant Idea 1: Getting smart with the versatile SmartBoard Brilliant Idea 2: Disney and Spielberg need to looir laurels Brilliant Idea 3: Visit museums online and become a Caboodle curator! Brilliant Idea 4: An online world opens reading to boys Brilliant Idea 5: Words on the move with CapturaTalk Brilliant Idea 6: Learning French: quicker with Clicker Brilliant Idea 7: Put comics in the mix: improving narrative skills Brilliant Idea 8: Dance your way to fitness Brilliant Idea 9: Digital video for life stories Brilliant Idea 10: Tell me all about it: recording pupils’ voices in place of writing! Brilliant Idea 11: Seeing is believing Brilliant Idea 12: Mathletics – bringing a competitive edge to maths learning Brilliant Idea 13: Chatting about Miss Havisham Brilliant Idea 14: iMovie supports the curriculum Brilliant Idea 15: Radio freedom: make a podcast and take control of the airwaves! Brilliant Idea 16: Keeping pupils ‘in the zone’ Brilliant Idea 17: The ‘I’ in iPod: personalised learning Brilliant Idea 18: Yes, Wii can: turn-taking and getting fit Brill...
