Chapter 1, Technology in the classroom, deal with the importance of including ICT in the language curriculum. According to the authors ICT have intrinsic features that make its use a valuable source of input but, as mentioned above, sometimes teachers may distrust technology or just be reluctant to include computer activities in their classrooms.
implementing ICT in the Classroom
Introduction
In School Innovation: Pathway to the Knowledge Society there is an
unequivocal statement of what teachers have to do:
“The integration
of I.C.T. into all major social institutions and organisations means that the
necessity to equip young people with the capacity to understand and utilise the
potential of such environments is no longer an option, but is now an
imperative.”
(Cuttance,
2001:73)
Integration of ICT– long term project approach. This took the form of a long term
project or activity. In this case I
set a long term activity which is loosely related to the work we are doing
in the term. The advantage is that
you can separate the classroom work from the ICT work and if you miss a
lesson due to an excursion or “incursion” (an in school activity that cuts
into your lesson times) you a catch up the following week. From a student’s learning viewpoint this
approach sometimes creates difficulty for the students as two weeks is a
long time between activities and often only think about the lesson as they
come to it. In addition it sometimes proved difficult to integrate into
the classroom work going on at the same time.
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