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ICT in Subjects

April 1, 2012 - 11:23 | ICT, ICTinSubjects

My school have taken the plunge to deliver ICT through subjects – exciting times I hear you think! Every school I am aware of having done this has back-peddled to discrete lessons because it is too difficult to do it well – too many teachers without the necessary skillset or knowledge to facilitate ICT learning. However, this major project has a few possible winning elements that might make a difference. They are: team teaching: an ICT teacher will be present in every ICT in Subjects lesson Leadership Team support: the LT are fully behind the project and expect success a new timetable model: our school is shifting from a one week 40 lesson timetable to a two week 30 lesson … Continue reading →

Programming the Maths Curriculum

September 8, 2011 - 20:37 | ICT

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This was written as a response to Pete Bell’s blogpost ICT and Computing in Schools – Harness a new dawn AQA have attempted (2009)to take this issue seriously and consulted IBM, British Aerospace and other big corps to identify what they want from graduates. The answer, according to Barbara Wilson – chief examiner at the time – was business-savvy young people who understand how technology can add value to an organisation and the complicated process of implementing tech successfully. The new ICT A Level spec attempts to do this. I quite like it. Paper projects are still a problem. I hope to see the end of these shortly, but it is not easy to nurture the real-life project process without … Continue reading →