you may or may not have heard, I have a new role at school- ICT learning and teaching advisor. I want to make sure as many staff are using ICT to enhance learning and teaching. So, how to do this- so far a three pronged atack is planned
1) staff skills training
2) working with staff in classrooms
3) Providing training resources and ideas
1) staff skills training
2) working with staff in classrooms
3) Providing training resources and ideas
and boy do I have some ideas. I have purposefully waited until after the Scottish learning festival and one month of doing the job before deciding my direction….. and there were so many choices. I am fascinated by words, but will leave that one to next session!
THIS session, my focus will be on outside/inside ICT . Taking the outside inside, taking the inside outside, joining the two together with a little eco, a little adventure and lots of exploration and LOADS of ICT, everywhere.
WHAT
So my first project is going to focus on the humble welly walk. With Primary 1 I want to
- lok at their position in the world- using gogle earth to zoom in, and plan a route
- introduce wellyvision using the video camera strapped to a welly
- let children take digital photos on the walk, interviewing them on their walk with the easispeak
- create talking postcards with the photos to add to a geat big aerial picture
- let children use a digital microscope to look at the items collected
- let children take snapshots of the collected items and record details onto a chatterbox and make a display
WHY
I want
- to extend the language of the children… why wont me daughter tell me about her welly walk???
- to make lessons more fun, more fun makes more learning.
- to enrich- this activity would happen anyway- but the children will be do all sorts of things not possible 20 years go… be able to see their school from the air, plan a route, see a welly view of the walk, get up close and personal with examining finds, record their walk in a different way.
