This week I am running a flashmeeting video conference for ICT trainees and teachers from Norfolk and Suffolk. We are going to try to answer the following questions:
- What teaching routines do you use?
- How do you deliver the KS3 ICT units?
- How have you adapted the sample units to make them better to teach?
- How do you assess KS3 ICT?
- What would you do to update the National Curriculum for ICT?
I gave my answers in a post entitled Make IT Better to get the debate started.
Shared Resources
Examples of assessed work from Mike Summers at St Francis Academy in Liverpool
Unit assessment grid I’ve adapted from various resources.
Discuss this via Flashmeeting
Tuesday 5th December from 15:45 - 16:30
Demo Connection to test your webcam (can participate without) and microphone
Click here to join the meeting from 15:30 ready to start for 15:45
Places are limited, so please contact me by posting a comment to confirm a place.
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Comment by Paul Harrington
4 December 6, 2006, 1:20 am o'clock |
Hi Alex,
Just dropping in a comment following the skype conference on Sunday - an interesting discussion - good to see you are trying out flashmeeting - have you or Joe used the Making the News site run by E2BN and the OU - great for pupils posting and with international links for e-twinning and the use of mfl and efl, it allows a wide range of file types to be uploaded and is set up to enable you to record a short flash video ( it also has links to the OU Flashmeeting site).
Comment by Alex Savage
3 December 5, 2006, 5:55 pm o'clock |
Mike’s comments about evolving levels is very interesting. I do think that student’s ability to do certain skills has advanced, for example searching the web. However, skills like deciding on the quality of information or how to process it for a new audience don’t seem to have improved.
Comment by d.harrhy
2 December 5, 2006, 5:55 pm o'clock |
Hi Alex,
Had problems with the web cam, so apologies for that, but it was still great to swap some ideas, I found the ideas about trying to make databases more accessible really interesting.
I think the main problem with making databases exciting seems to stem from the idea of giving a purpose to storing the data; you don’t really get anything exciting back out other that the data you originally put in.
I think making them realise that programs like i-tunes, games and websites store data in a databases and give useful interesting outputs (like character matches on a dating website) would make it more interesting.
Designing an interface that allowed you to see results of a change in information could make it yet more interesting. For example in games a change in a power ratings from 200 to 500 may trigger a change in what the character looks like.
Realising the data they store or get out of the database can effect an outcome may be a more interesting angle. I’m going to go have a think….. This might be quite difficult to do but it would be great to see the student actually enjoy creating a database.
Thanks for the inspirations…..
David
Comment by Mike Cameron
1 December 5, 2006, 5:50 pm o'clock |
In the immortal words of Uncle Duke and paraphrasing slightly - “you give great meeting, Alex” (Doonesbury fans will know what I’m talking about.
Lots of really interesting things. The one I’m most interested in is the idea of levels. Have we seen level drift in ICT? Are things that we might have thought were level 4/5 10 years ago now things that we expect humans to do out of the box (working a computer interface for example). Silly comparison - we don’t have a NC level in PE for walking (do we?). Are some of the things we expect of students now anticipated to be so ingrained that we don’t even see them when they happen.