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Your students are already using technology as part of their daily life and increasingly expect to use it for learning in school. But what does this mean for you as a teacher? As a 21st century teacher you are a learner yourself – adapting your previous...
Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings...
Visualisers have been around for quite sometime now, but with the recent drop in price, many schools and Partnerships are now buying them to compliment the use of interactive whiteboards. A visualiser, at its simplest, is a video camera mounted on a stand...
The new Facts of the Day calendar is like an advent calendar,with an educational twist for each day of the year! Each date on this pictorial calendar contains a short article about a special event, famous person or interesting fact related to the day...
The Editable IWB Dictionary (ictgames.com) lets you store useful words and view them in a 3D scrolling dictionary. This can be really useful when working with Guided Groups in Literacy, making the IWB a powerful spelling resource during the main activity...
As a part of the restructuring of KCC web resources the KentNGfL web site will be moving. The majority of the content will stay the same. The web site address will be different. If you have links to any of the resources on your web site or have the KentNGfL...
Our congratulations to Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden (joint runner up). Described by judges as a 'cracking school' with an 'excellent vision of where it wants to go with technology', Homewood has raised standards through...
Teachers looking at persuasive writing within a Literacy lesson might want to use an advert from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/advertisingvideos Some are unsuitable for classroom use so please do check them in advance. My personal favourite is...
To celebrate Safer Internet Day 09, CEOP’s Thinkuknow programme developed two interactive assemblies to protect, educate and empower children and young people from harm relating to online issues. Simply download the file to your desktop or burn to disc...
Learning with ICT in a typical UK primary school consists of an ICT suite with on average 15 PCs. Katy Potts (Primary Manager ICT, Cambridge Education) suggests schools need to make a leap of faith away from the traditional ICT suite. To read the full...
Teaching ideas www.teachingideas.co.uk The Teaching Ideas website is run by Mark Warner, a teacher at The Downs Primary School in east Kent. Mark runs the website as a hobby and started it when he was at university as a way to share his own teaching resources...
ICT Games www.ictgames.com ICTgames.com is run by James Barrett, Kent ICT Project Teacher. The website contains many numeracy and literacy games created by James in his spare time. Although mainly aimed at early years and key stage 1 pupils, some games...
This is one of a new series of handbooks from QCA and can be downloaded from the QCA site: www.qca.org.uk/qca_1880.aspx The handbook suggests ways of modifying each aspect of the programmes of study in the National Curriculum and then outlines opportunities...
TeacherLED Interactive Whiteboard Resources For Teachers www.teacherled.com Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. Follow this link for...
According to the Guardian newspaper, the new primary curriculum will allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach. It will also include more modern media and web-based skills such as blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter. http://www.guardian...
The report, The importance of ICT: information and communication technology in primary and secondary schools 2005/8, can be found on the Ofsted website www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/070035 . Here is a brief summary: Government investment and better planning...
Here are some useful documents and websites I have come across on Twitter . 1. Tom Barrett has put together "interesting ways to use..." Google Docs in the Classroom Your Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom Google Earth in the Classroom...
NGfL Cymru www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk The National Grid for Learning (NGfL) Cymru’s website is full of lots of great lessons that are perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. They have created lots of new resources which are a must to see inclusing a...
Visit the revised National Strategies website. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/
At the recent Swale ITN, Morag from Tunstall suggested we look at http://www.tutpup.com/ for encouraging pupils to practise and speed up their maths and spellings. A teacher will need to create a free account for their class, and pupils can register with...
How does your school keep parents informed, and involved, in the homework process? Do you use email to inform parents that their child has a particular homework due in on a given day or to send out homework tasks? Do you set homework tasks via a blog...
Alisa Miller @ Smartteaching.org has created a useful list of "100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques ". "Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh...
In Kent, we have many schools eager to use the computer game 'Myst', after being inspired by Tim Rylands at our recent ICT Conference. January 2009 is the official launch of Kent's writing project using the computer game Myst, when we will...
Simple interactive Flash programmes from Coventy Learning Gateway . Bingo Number Known Facts Calculations Money Problem Solving Problem Solving 2 Shape, Space and Measures Data Handling Foundation Stage Various strands Special Schools
ICT2008 Exhibition and Conference Ashford International Hotel Thursday 3 July 2008 www.eiskent.co.uk Guest speaker Tim Rylands Tim Rylands has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology...
Christina Laun on the College@Home blog has compiled a list of 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner . This is a very useful list and highlights the wide range of tools we have available to us to meet the needs of different “ learning styles...
We first had You Tube, then Teacher Tube and now we have Schools Tube. http://www.schoolstube.com/ (Hopefully the site is not blocked) I have been watching the Vikings this morning and also a stream in Ashford!
Sparklebox is a a fantastic place where you can download all sorts of teaching resources. All their resources are now free. Link: Sparklebox K s 1 Link: Sparklebox Ks 2
In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical...
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