Case Study the development of IT teaching and learning in the curriculum

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Case Study - the development of IT teaching and
learning in the curriculum

• It always seems that we are starting back at
  square one.
• Development has been patchy. I cant in all
  honesty, say that all the children are having a
  consistent experience in IT.
• IT development is difficult and is often led by
  enthusiasm rather than detailed planning.

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Reasons

• the dependence on the skills and expertise of an
  individual enthusiast or leader - lost if that
  person leaves the school
• lack of teacher self-confidence - hard gained but
  soon lost
• the difficulty in getting the correct balance
  between the development of teacher skill and
  curriculum implementation.

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Effective learning in IT would result in

• pupils asking more questions and offering
  hypotheses because IT makes it easier to answer
  or explore them
• pupils showing a willingness to look for answers
  because IT makes information retrieval, data
  analysis and modelling easier
• pupils showing a willingness to take risks
  because IT allows them to correct errors and/or
  start again
• pupils using and choosing a wider range of
  resources and media because IT facilitates
  organisation and retrieval

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Effective learning in IT would result in

• pupils showing an ability to learn by iteration
  rather than through one single attempt, because
  IT makes experimentation faster and easier
• pupils showing better motivation towards their
  work because IT makes possible the
  capture/retrieval and analysis of real
  information and allows pupils to achieve
  high-quality presentation and to design systems
  which perform real tasks
• pupils collaborating on tasks to produce
  outcomes and using IT to facilitate such
  collaboration

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Effective learning in IT would result in

• pupils becoming more autonomous because IT offers
  them tools they can control to perform jobs and
  tasks for them.

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Effective teaching in IT would demonstrate that

• Individual lesson planning takes account of
  schools agreed plan for the development of IT
  capability
• lesson objectives identify specific opportunities
  for developing IT capability
• teachers take pupils prior experience with IT
  (gained in and out of school) into account when
  planning lesson
• activities have built-in differentiation so that
  the tasks set match the needs and abilities of
  pupils
• IT is used to enhance both teaching and learning
  in a range of subject contexts

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Effective teaching in IT would demonstrate that

• teachers use the IT expertise of colleagues to
  develop their own learning and that of their
  pupils
• Teachers consciously find ways to use pupils own
  IT expertise to develop other pupils learning
• available support, such as technician or IT
  Special Educational Needs specialists, is used by
  the teacher to best effect
• teachers use the available expertise of parents
  and other members of the community to enrich the
  IT use in the classroom.