The PowerPoint from this morning's session can now be viewed here:
Thank you to the 4 'Bloggers' who were busy discussing all sorts of ICT issues and their comments can now be viewed on the previous post.
Thank you also to everyone who completed a yellow sheet - we will pool the ideas and get something back out to you in due course.
I think that it is testament to how easy it is to set up a blog that Rachel actually set one up for her form during the session this morning - well done! After all, like Pat said, it's about being pushed out of our comfort zones and being resilient!
Useful links
Blogger - site we use to set up blogs
Slideshare
Audacity download
Doug Belshaw blog
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Rubbish. What's up with pen and paper?
You don't need all this electronic blogging, computer use and video. For saying the school's supposed to be an eco-school, it's not very eco-friendly; encouraging children to use computers to do their homework.
Recycled paper and a ball-point pen to write, and a couple of books and worksheets.
I agree that there is always the danger that ICT can be over or mis-used and it is essential that we highlight the alternatives to ICT and especially the internet; however, we can not ignore the fact that we are living and more importantly teaching a generation of internet users who are more likely to make use of an internet cafe than a library. It is important therefore that they learn to use that resource in an approriate and effective way both at home and school.....and if in doing so it motivates the more reluctant learners and supports the weaker and more able so much the better!
True, but I don't know many kids that use internet cafés! When you said kids are "more likely to make use of an internet cafe than a library", you pretty much surrendered to them, and suggest we should stop using libraries (where published works, that have been accepted and recognised, are stored), and move to computers, where anyone, from nearly any country, can post their views, regardless of whether they're right or wrong.
I'm not saying we should ignore ICT though - I'm saying we should stick to what has been tried and tested; pen and paper. We have access to books, encyclopædias, atlases, volumes of published work, drawn diagrams, written explanations - nigh on everything we need, why do the same, but on a computer?
Still, everyone has their own opinion.
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