ICT provides a profound potential to make the taught curriculum significantly more relevant, purposeful, creative and flexible and more widely accessible, supporting all learners at all stages throughout their lives and in ways that best suit their own particular learning style.Within our schools and educational establishments, ICT also presents a genuine opportunity to support all teachers in their planning, teaching and learning. The government also see the potential of ICT use beyond teachers and learners but include parents, support staff and governors. The government also highlights that ICT should also be used as a means of enabling learning to take place more easily beyond the bounds of the formal Read the rest of this entry »
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Blogging has great potential as a means of communication but also as a creative outlet for students as well as another avenue for reflection. One of the eLearning4schools.net put a great blog together a year or so ago to help teachers and students in his school to create and use blogs. We think it is a great starting point for you to take a look at. bloggingguide.wordpress.com Seeing as our whole reason for being here at eLearning4schools.net is eLearning we thought we would try to outline what we feel eLearning is all about! First of all “what we think it is all about” is a very important statement as their are so many varying points of view. This question normally elicits a variety of responses depending on the experience and background of the person involved. So, here are some definitions of e-learning on the Web found by Google. We could write a long academic article covering all the different view points however we are all about cutting through the waffle and delivering useful information, guides and tips to you to make your job easier and save you lots of time to boot! We believe eLearning simply means encompassing technology in the learning process whether it is in the delivery, activity, assessment or management of learning. The important point to raise is that eLearning is about Learning supported by technology. eLearning can include Learning supported by:
ELearning, therefore, could be achieved by using robots, programmable toys and interactive games; interactive whiteboards, the internet and digital photography; and by web-cast master classes, distance learning or on-line formative assessment. I feel the support for learning through real life experiences, for example communicating with real people in real time through video conferences, watching real experiments and videoing real-life experience are other significant contributions of e-learning. Its scope is infinite only restricted by our imagination and creativity. ELearning not only encompasses hardware technology but also a multitude of opportunities presented by web technologies and services such as blogging, social networking sites and live streaming and broadcast services. There are also opportunities to make more use of commercial and open source software as well as mobile technologies. For a pictorial overview for my definition of eLearning please click here eLearning Overview We thought this post would be a great way to outline how important it is for us as teachers to think about the sort of world our students are going to enter when they leave school. The changing landscape of the world means that we must look at how we teach. If we consider the world our students live in and consider the classroom we teach them in, they quite literally are stepping back in time in many of our classrooms. Incorporating eLearning into our teaching is something we must ensure we do with urgency!
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Welcome to our new blog based site! We are excited about sharing with you our ideas for eLearning and giving advice, help and tips for successful eLearning across the school and in the classroom.
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