More resources for the new term

Simon Widdowson rightly tweets about this excellent site – a great starter collection to bounce from … From Pearcedale Primary School in Australia

iPrimary – ICT skills screencasts

iPrimary is a set of screencasts – video tutorials to help teachers with learning new ICT skills. This is the site of Chris Thomas a year 6 teacher from Canterbury in Kent.

This website features video tutorials I have produced to support teachers who wish to develop their ICT skills, and extend the use of ICT within their classroom.

Teacher TV Update

Tuesday 1 December … Whiteboard Science – Seven lesson starts
Monday 7 December … Primary e-Safety
Tuesday 15 December … Primary Languages: Teachers and children starting French

Find out more here.

Learner entitlement to ICT

My friend Neil Adam points out in a ‘tweet’ on Twitter that Becta have pages and exemplars on entitlement to ICT within curriculum contexts. They are dated April 2009 and are emblazoned with titles such as: ICT in primary Art and Design: A pupil’s entitlement.

You can access the range which covers all of the curriculum areas  … here.

Bee-Bot Resources

Those clever people down in Kent (well this time James Barrett) have created some really useful Bee-Bot resources.

They can be accessed here … excellent stuff James!

Literacy with ICT

Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth teachers have come up with a neat booklet to inform parents about Literacy with ICT which makes good reading for anyone.

This is what the writers say about the booklet:

This Handbook provides you with information about new ways your child is learning in today’s classroom.

Children today live and learn in a world that is different from the world in which we grew up. Information grows so quickly that the amount of information in the world is said to double every two years. At this rate,
textbooks, maps, encyclopedias and most printed material can be outdated by the time they reach our children’s hands.

At the same time, today’s students communicate using technology like websites, texting, chat, email and blogs.

Even the meaning of literacy has changed. Literacy is not only about reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing. It is also about developing literacy with information and communication technology
(ICT). Our children face an exciting but challenging future. How do we prepare them to succeed in a world that changes so quickly?

Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth has created a developmental continuum, an assessment tool used by teachers, called Literacy with Information and Communication Technology Across the Curriculum
to set a path for teachers and students to follow.

Inside this handbook you will see what Literacy with ICT might look like in your child’s classroom. You will also discover ways that you, as a parent or guardian can support your child’s use of ICT at home in safe and responsible ways. By working together, we can all help prepare our children for the world in which they live.

Literacy with ICT IS FOR ME!

“In times of change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

Harnessing Technology for Next Generation Learning: Children, schools and families implementation plan 2009-2012

If you haven’t already found this and learned it off by heart …..

 

Harnessing Technology for Next Generation Learning: Children, schools and families implementation plan 2009-2012

Here is what is said about the report:  This implementation plan outlines the strategic ambitions for technology in the Children, schools and families sector. The plan forms an important part of Becta’s work to update ‘Harnessing Technology’ and supports national priorities including improving achievement and narrowing attainment gaps, engaging disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people and developing the capacity, quality and efficiency of provision.

 

TESconnect – a reminder

There are some terrific resources available to those who sign up for TESconnect. Just sign up or in and they can all be yours.

This week I noticed that was a particularly useful set of charts called ‘ICT – Steps to Success’  that could be downloaded .. well worth a look at these and the other things available.

I find out about these things because I ticked the box on the TESconnect site which sends me a weekly email update …means I don’t have to remember that they have superb ideas … they keep me up to date !

Keep up to date ….

The February edition of the Shambles News Letter is now available online.  Information not to be missed. Weel worth reading the stuff on Flickr Creative Commons.