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English and ICTUsing ICT for reflection – Providing motivation and focus for children’s activities
Activity summary – Motivations
- Reflect on forms of ICT available.
- Identify ways in which these can be used to provide motivation and focus for work in English.
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Students begin by identifying the various forms of ICT which are available to them in their teaching. After some reflection on their experience in the classroom and on the course, (e.g. Links with examples) they are asked to list examples of ways in which ICT can provide motivation and focus for children’s work. Examples include:
- use word processing and publishing facilities to produce books for peers/younger children
- websites/pages aimed at younger children/peers/adults
- prepare and record dramatisations of texts, reviews/reports/documentaries/children’s educational programmes/discussions for TV/radio programmes;
- leaflets
- posters
- letters and emails
The students are then given a series of English and cross-curricular topics and asked to consider how ICT could be used to provide motivation and focus for work in English.
For each of these topics suggest how you could use ICT to provide motivation and focus for work in English:
adventure stories
instruction writing
humourous verse
the senses
discussion texts
forces
explanation writing
Victorian Britain
The local area
A contrasting locality…
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