"ICT supports knowledge-building among teams and enables team members to collaborate, inquire, interact and integrate prior knowledge with new understanding."
Given that my teaching methods are media studies and art, it is almost a given that there will be quite a lot of ICT to implement lessons. Technology is used broadly throughout the Media subject and the students are required and encouraged to create original works using video, web, animation and digital imaging/graphic design. Being able to connect with students and assess their progress through emailed rough drafts and then ammending them electronically is a very fast and effective way of interfacing with the literacy demands of students.
It is this high level of connectivity, both inside and outside the class environment that is most exciting for group work within the subject. the ability to share ideas and perpectives is very easy due to the access to web resources. Information can be shared through linking a wide variety of in depth resources that can take the form of either video, images, text or combinations of all three.
My Mentor from the first teaching block is also the head of ICT at his school and I asked him if ICT had changed the way he teaches his students;
"Yes. there is less emphasis on content and more on skills and concepts. Information is vastly accessable and rapidly changing, therefore students need to develop skills in how to find, read, analyse, evaluate, organise, summarise, and transform information, rather than memorise facts."
Perhaps that is the downside to the wealth of knowledge that is so freely avilable at the click of a button. Students now have to learn to be more discerning in the way they work with the information, extrapolating what they need and the teacher must now help guide them through these processes of editing and deciphering.
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