This website wants to show you how Information, Communications and Technologies (ICTs), can be successfully used in your classroom.
Context:
Grade: 2
Demographic: Suburban school; 20 students have English as their home language.
Class size: 22 students; 13 boys & 9 girls.
Special needs: One child has autistic tendencies and one child has a hearing impediment.
My teaching aim: To encourage adaptable learners and creative thinking skills.
Click the links below to view three reasons ICTs should be used in the classroom.
ICTs can help:
Context:
Grade: 2
Demographic: Suburban school; 20 students have English as their home language.
Class size: 22 students; 13 boys & 9 girls.
Special needs: One child has autistic tendencies and one child has a hearing impediment.
My teaching aim: To encourage adaptable learners and creative thinking skills.
Click the links below to view three reasons ICTs should be used in the classroom.
ICTs can help:
- To encourage adaptable learners and creative thinking skills.
- To cater for students with varying disabilities, by providing them with a tool to help them achieve the desired outcome. For example, a student with limited hearing may need an additional ICT in order to achieve the same task as their peers, giving that student more confidence to participate.
- To engage students and keep them on-task,
Mix many years together, add some technology and what do you have? Students teaching themselves?
from this
to this
Our goal as educators should be to source and utilise useful ICTs, so that we can facilitate quality learning for all our students.