English and ICT

Using the Web – Introduction

The Internet provides children and student teachers with a wide range of resource material, and reading the Internet is increasingly part of life both in and out of school. As reading the Internet differs in some key ways from reading print texts, this has several implications for our work with students, who need to:

be aware of the nature of reading the Internet;
be able to recognise the varied (and often extensive) skills that children have developed in out-of-school contexts;
develop appropriate approaches for supporting children’s encounters with the Internet in school;
develop their own critical reading skills and support children in doing so too

Contents

Introduction

Moving Image

Introduction
Making knowledge explicit
Moving image texts in the curriculum
Developing students’ own film-making skills
Encouraging students to risk experimentation with film-making in the classroom

Using the Web

Introduction
Awareness of the nature of reading the Internet
Reading the Internet
Out of school contexts
Appropriate approaches
Critical reading

ICT and Teaching Literacy

Introduction
Promoting interactive use of ICT in whole class teaching
Familiarising students with the range of software available in schools
Developing students’ ability to evaluate software and materials found on literacy teaching sites

Digital Writing

Introduction
Awareness of changing nature of writing
The potential of digital writing to motivate and support children’s writing
Using word-processors
References

Using ICT for reflection