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= ICT tools – what achieves your objectives? =
= ICT tools – what achieves your objectives? =
Just a few years back, the software tools you used were stored on your computer but today you can find similar tools online. The tools offer the added value of giving your work an audience, getting feedback, sharing and improving it. Somewhere in the process, you can imagine that learning can surely happen. There is surely a resource in this list that will help you achieve your objectives. Several will chime with some teachers and not others. So feel free to experiment with these tools, and even return here to share your finding. Sparks that enlighten classroom uses are welcome.


Of all the words we’ve available to describe these tools, you ought notice that some are entirely absent. The words are enjoyable, cool, innovative and new way to learn.
Think about what you want your students to get out of ICT.  


While we've provided some guidance on how to use a number of tools, and we've tagged them where possible with teaching approaches, and activities, you should remember - ICT is often not about what the tool can do, but what you do with the tool.  For example, Google Drive can just be used as an online office and file management system...it can also be used as a highly sophisticated tool to collaborate, engage in real time shared research, and video conferencing. Think about what you want your students to get out of the tools - sometimes, a relatively simple use, done well, will be far better than using more advanced featuresOther times you might want to let the pupils play with a general idea, and use their own tools
Just a few years back, software tools were stored on your computer but today you can find similar tools online. The tools offer the added value of giving your work an audience, getting feedback, sharing and improving it. Somewhere in the process, you can imagine that learning does happen. There is surely a resource in this list that will help you achieve your objectives. Several will chime with some teachers and not others.
 
We've provided a little guidance on how you might use some tools, or tagged them with ideas on how they may work. ICT is often not about what the tool can do, but what you do with the tool.  For example, Google Drive enables you to share files but you could get students using it to engage in shared real time research. It then becomes a sophisticated tool to collaborate with. Weigh up a focused use, besides a 'hope for the best' use. Don't weigh up quality with hardware and features. At times you might let students choose their own tools.
 
Of all the words we’ve available to describe these tools, you ought notice that some are entirely absent. The words are enjoyable, cool, innovative and new way to learn. The key words are to do with what achieves teaching objectives. So do experiment, and even return here to share a use that enhances what we aim to do.
 
=Pedagogy and ICT - A Review of the Literature=
The [[Pedagogy and ICT a Review of the Literature]] article (Loveless, 2009; published by BECTA) covers the relationship between pedagogy and ICT use.   
{{adaptedfrom|Pedagogy and ICT a Review of the Literature|Introduction|This review attempts to offer frameworks for thinking about the ‘What?’, ‘How?' and 'Why?’ questions of teaching with information and communications technologies (ICT), offering a range of tools to help us to understand our teaching in local and global contexts, to help us, as Freire urged, to ‘read the world’ of our practice (Freire and Macedo, 1987).  It covers a range of approaches to pedagogy, relating these to ICT and some particular issues raised in the literature}}

Latest revision as of 07:56, 18 September 2012

ICT tools – what achieves your objectives?

Think about what you want your students to get out of ICT.

Just a few years back, software tools were stored on your computer but today you can find similar tools online. The tools offer the added value of giving your work an audience, getting feedback, sharing and improving it. Somewhere in the process, you can imagine that learning does happen. There is surely a resource in this list that will help you achieve your objectives. Several will chime with some teachers and not others.

We've provided a little guidance on how you might use some tools, or tagged them with ideas on how they may work. ICT is often not about what the tool can do, but what you do with the tool. For example, Google Drive enables you to share files but you could get students using it to engage in shared real time research. It then becomes a sophisticated tool to collaborate with. Weigh up a focused use, besides a 'hope for the best' use. Don't weigh up quality with hardware and features. At times you might let students choose their own tools.

Of all the words we’ve available to describe these tools, you ought notice that some are entirely absent. The words are enjoyable, cool, innovative and new way to learn. The key words are to do with what achieves teaching objectives. So do experiment, and even return here to share a use that enhances what we aim to do.

Pedagogy and ICT - A Review of the Literature

The Pedagogy and ICT a Review of the Literature article (Loveless, 2009; published by BECTA) covers the relationship between pedagogy and ICT use. This review attempts to offer frameworks for thinking about the ‘What?’, ‘How?' and 'Why?’ questions of teaching with information and communications technologies (ICT), offering a range of tools to help us to understand our teaching in local and global contexts, to help us, as Freire urged, to ‘read the world’ of our practice (Freire and Macedo, 1987). It covers a range of approaches to pedagogy, relating these to ICT and some particular issues raised in the literature (Adapted from Pedagogy and ICT a Review of the Literature, section Introduction).