English and ICT

ICT and Teaching Literacy – Introduction

Encouraging trainees to consider carefully the tools they select to support their teaching has always been important. However, we feel that the increasing availability and use of ICT in schools presents particular issues for preparing student teachers for the classroom. In particular how to:

promote interactive use of ICT in whole class teaching.
enable students to be selective in when and how choose to use ICT to support their teaching.
familiarise students with the range of educational software available.
provide students with the confidence and skills to evaluate software and materials found on teaching sites to identify materials which will support their teaching.

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