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21st Century Teacher - Are you ready to meet the challenge?

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 technology skills and knowledge as new technologies...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-09-2010
A Computer Per Student Leads to Higher Performance

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 outperformed their traditional classroom peers...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-22-2010
Visualisers

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 that connects to a data projector. Objects can...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-20-2010
Kent NGfL is moving!

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 as your homepage then these links will be redirected...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-07-2009
ICT Excellence Awards 2008

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 innovation, with ICT playing a key role. Go to...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 08-17-2009
Exploring advertisements (persuasive writing)

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 this one: www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-22-2009
Do ICT suites have any place in 21st century primary schools?

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 article go to: http://future.ncsl.org.uk/News.aspx...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-18-2009
Website of the week: ICT Games

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 suitable are for key stage 2 pupils too. Have you...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-04-2009
ICT: Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with Learning Difficulties

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 and activities for key stages 1 to 4. P-level...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-27-2009
The importance of ICT by OFSTED

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 in schools have contributed to improvement...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-10-2009

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