why teach ict?
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Year 1ICT LECTURE 1: WHY TEACH ICT?• What is ICT?• Structure of the Roehampton ICT course• Getting started with Blogfolio• ICT audit• Learning styles• Rationales for ICT in primary educationTRANSCRIPT
Induction Module
ICT for StudyingResearch, References, Word, PowerPoint, Moodle, BlogFolio
ICT for teachingVLEs, Presenting, IWBs, Resources, Web 2.0
ICT for learningE-learning, E-safety, Multimedia, Games, Thinking
Finding things out
Making things happen
Exchanging and sharing information
Reviewing, modifying and
evaluating work
EYFS
“By the end of EYFS, children should…
Find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology and use information and communication technology and programmable toys to support their learning”
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 2
Why teach ICT?How should we
teach ICT?Creative play with
technologyMeaningful learning
and ICTFinding things out
on the web
Video and the reflective practitioner (T&L)
Creating interactive whiteboard resources (English)
Communicating ideas with image technology (Art)
Evaluating resourcesDeveloping resourcesGames and
programming
Wikis (English)Blogs (English)
ICT and Foundation Subjects
Directed tasks (ICT, Art)Assessed work (Teaching and Learning, English)Portfolio for Year 3
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To research more effectively; better communication skills; more efficient use of existing software skills
@simonkellis
Industry is screaming for ICT 'professionals' not ICT 'users'
@teraknor
It’s Interesting, Creative and Transformative! It's also relevant, bridges generation gaps and is future focused and driven!
@clareire
To connect us with the global community and enable children to be passionate about its potential to develop for the future
@dawnhallybone
It’s the only truly innovative subject - new resources produced every day
@goodallict
Because it is the most exciting, magic & possibly even life changing subject in the curriculum!
@janewoods3
We all need to communicate, technology offers amazing ways to connect and be citizens
@stevebunce
It’s about speaking the language of your learners and meeting them where they are!
@TESict
It allows the teacher to be a life long learner
@BobToms100
‘cos at the mo it’s still a NC subject
@billgibbon
Information and communication technology (ICT) prepares pupils to participate in a rapidly changing world in which work and other activities are increasingly transformed by access to varied and developing technology. Pupils use ICT tools to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information responsibly, creatively and with discrimination. They learn how to employ ICT to enable rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. Increased capability in the use of ICT promotes initiative and independent learning, with pupils being able to make informed judgements about when and where to use ICT to best effect, and to consider its implications for home and work both now and in the future.
DfES/QCA 1999
With scientific method, we took things apart to see how they work. Now with computers we can put things back together to see how they work, by modelling complex, interrelated processes, even life itself. This is a new age of discovery, and ICT is the gateway.
Douglas Adams, Author
To argue against the importance of ICT in the primary curriculum is to ignore the increasing digitisation of information worldwide. This will require digital literacy of all children for their full participation in society.... In all branches of knowledge, all professions and all vocations, the effective use of new technologies will be vital. Children not only need to learn to use specific devices and applications, they also need to understand the fundamental concepts of safe and critical use.
Sir Jim Rose, 2009
Young people have huge appetites for the computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer technology and not just consume it
Matthew Harrison, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010
