Educating the Dragon

Here are my six ideas for developing ICT in your classroom. They are designed to take the load of the teacher, develop the thinking skills involved for the students and be generic.

1. Peer tutoring – take skills teaching off the teacher.( having to teach someone else is great reinforcement)
2.  ICT buddy system- working with a partner on a project will more than double the learning going on, feeding ideas from one another will intensify the higher order thinking going on- plus using the computer/software/ application as the focal learning object will mean more ‘on task’ conversation and less chatter.
3. Software ‘experts’ in the class are a useful thing. ( Where Jane is the ‘go to’ girl about powerpoint and Adam knows all about imovie)
4. Teamworking is perhaps an extension of 2- but with more people =more ideas- but be careful of the ‘slacker’ in the group they can hide.
5. Make use of skills checklists, cards, mini tutorials
6. Get your groups  in 4 to work on a application and produce the cards, video tutorials, checklists mentioned in 5.

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