Perfect ICT Every Lesson (The Perfect Series) - Hardcover

Anderson, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781351031 ISBN 13: 9781781351031

Publisher: Independent Thinking Press, 2014

Synopsis

Technology is at the heart of learning and every teacher needs to be using social media, mobile technologies, and transformational digital learning opportunities as an integral part of their range of strategies for helping students make the maximum progress. Mark Anderson provides practical strategies that are proven to be successful in classrooms.

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About the Author

Mark Anderson is Assistant Head Teacher: Director of E-Learning at Sir Bernard Lovell School, Bristol where he focuses on iPad and technology-related teaching and learning. He is a popular and influential blogger who is renowned for providing teachers with ideas for digitalising learning to make it fun and effective. He believes that technology can improve both your life and your access to learning through the sharing and collaboration of ideas.

Jackie Beere, Head teacher at Campion School, England until 2006, is now a consultant, trainer and School Improvement Partner. She spent three years as an Advanced Skills Teacher leading and implementing innovative Teaching and Learning initiatives including KS3 and 4 Learning to Learn and Thinking Skills programmes. She was awarded the OBE in November 2002 for services to education, having trained many teachers and school leaders in the latest theory and practice of learning to learn and emotional intelligence. She introduced Learning to Learn through Opening Minds, a competency-based curriculum at her school in 2006, after a two year pilot project proved very successful.

From the Back Cover

Perfect ICT Every Lesson uses the technology-related elements of the recent subject reports from Ofsted to provide clear and practical strategies that are proven to be successful in classrooms, offering up ideas for how they can be turned into a daily reality for all teachers.

“Dispels the myth that embracing technology in the classroom takes hours of discovery and days of practice before it is exposed to learners.”
Daniel Edwards, Director of Digital Strategy, Stephen Perse Foundation
“Jam-packed full of accessible and inspirational ideas, the ICT Evangelist has created a companion for every teacher in the land. Mark’s real-life shop floor experience instils the reader with the confidence with which to switch on the laptop and start experimenting. Be prepared – this is exciting stuff!”
Jamie Portman, Assistant Head Teacher, Campsmount

“For someone who considers themselves tech-savvy, I still found it packed full of ‘Well, I didn’t know that’ information.”
Pete Jones, Assistant Head Teacher, Director of Learning, Les Quennevais School

“Perfect ICT Every Lesson is the most comprehensive, yet accessible, overview of how ICT can be used by all teachers to enhance student learning that I have come across. Quite simply, there is something in it for teachers at every level of responsibility.”

Mark Anderson is Assistant Head Teacher: Director of E-Learning at Sir Bernard Lovell School, Bristol where he focuses on iPad and technology-related teaching and learning. He is a popular and influential blogger who is renowned for providing teachers with ideas for digitalising learning to make it fun and effective. He believes that technology can improve both your life and your access to learning through the sharing and collaboration of ideas.

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Foreword by Jackie Beere


Teachers have always been in the job of information communication.Now, with the rise of digital media technologies, the means of communicating information is evolving exponentially. How many of us fully use the technology available – not just for the benefit of our pupils, but also for ourselves? How many brilliant lesson ideas have you picked up from Twitter recently, and then delivered using a range of digital media technologies in the classroom?

Teachers who aren’t yet using communication devices and social media as learning tools are missing out on some wonderful learning opportunities. But, at home, their pupils are not! They’re sharing, joining, blogging, participating, reviewing, filing, photographing, listening, commenting and observing in more amazing ways than ever before. Many children now grow up with smartphones and tablet computers at home, and as soon as they can reach out for them, they begin to play and learn.

Watching 3-year-olds download videos, post photos on their blogs and learn words through iPad games, you start to realise that many teachers are delivering lessons that date from a different era. To fully lead learning today, teachers must be willing to use technology to engage and requires a mindset open to pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone and getting excited about trying out new technologies in our classrooms.


In this book, Mark Anderson helps teachers fi age, background or familiarity with new technologies. Mark shows how all the key skills your pupils need can be taught using the remarkable new (and not so new) tools of technology
and social media.

He is also clear that if we want to be the best teachers we can be, we also have to be learners in the world of ICT. Often, this means sharing expertise by teaching each other but it also involves learning from our pupils. Teachers also
need to realise that we are entering a brave new world where CPD will never be the same again. There are huge opportunities to network and communicate using digital media such as Skype, Twitter and blogs linked to TeachMeets and learning
forums which are providing a completely new context for
professional development.

There has never been a better time to try out new technologies in the classroom and share your successes and challenges with each other in the profession. Mark makes this easy because his ideas are practical and applicable to all lessons and subjects. You will learn so much from just reading this
book, but the challenge is to take the ideas and grow them in your classroom. From digital literacy to information searches to e-safety, Mark gives us the practical advice we need to use ICT in a way that suits us and our pupils.

Teachers often long for stability and consolidation rather than for more change or new initiatives. However, the highspeed world of new technology means that this is no longer an option. We all need to react to the world in which our
young people live and provide an education that responds to it. If we fail to grasp these new technologies, we risk becoming irrelevant or, even worse, ignored.

Read this book and enjoy experimenting with the ideas it contains in your lessons. At times it may feel risky and scary – but that’s learning for you!
Jackie Beere, Tiffield

Edition details

• Publisher: Independent Thinking Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781351031
• ISBN 13: 9781781351031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Beere Jackie