Friday, November 2, 2007
Reviving old material
ICT is quite a difficult subject to plan for in ITT as each year the students arrive with a greater knowledge and better skills than the last, in general that is, each year I have had some students that have tested my skills obviously. But each year it does get harder to keep the content enjoyable for the students as they use these tools daily just for fun. I find myself struggling to keep up. Hence the blogging! Today I approached Graphical Modelling with my students, formally I would have had to develop their own skills, whilst teaching them how children will learn and develop their IT capability. Today though they just experimented with the world of Microsoft Publisher creating ebooks, with hyperlinks and animations, giving a dimension that non of them had explored before. All the while discussing, the possibilities in the classroom, and developing their creative side. Well if nothing else we all enjoyed it and so they said learned lots of new skills and ideas...sometimes that is all you can ask for, also it kept them away from PowerPoint for a while.
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I agree with the problem that arises when teching ICT, especially to non-specialists, the diversity of skills is vast, although I do believe getting less so. At least this appears to be the case at PGCE level. This yesr I am approaching the ICT skills from a completely different angle. This particular group, though non-specialists are likely to be called upon to teach a degree of IT at key stage 3, and therefore I have taken the approach that it is beneficial to them to show them how to teach KS3 ICT. I have found that in doing this the students are taking a greater initiative and exploring the software in a different way. Their use has become more innovative and purposeful, and at the same time they are developing the skills needed to assist them in teaching and gain the QTS standards.
Furthermore the diversity in skill levels is less apparant, those proficient are finding inspiration in the teaching of the subject, whilst they rest are gaining confidence and purpose to their skills.
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