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Q23 Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills

Q23 Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.

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Exploring Science Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching and Learning
This is a preliminary research report, presented at BERA 2009, on one component of the ESRC-funded “Talking to Learn, Learning to Talk in Science” project. The focus of this resource is on research methodology and results. The researchers adopted a narrative approach to interviews where the teachers were asked to tell the story of their own experience of a lesson which they regarded as 'good'....
23.06.10
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Peer- and Parent-Assisted Learning: in Reading, Writing, Spelling and Thinking Skills & in Maths, Science and ICT
These articles were originally published as part of the Spotlights series of publications for practitioners by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE). They are provided as free downloads, by Practical Research for Education (PRE), the practitioner journal of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). The articles offer an overview of evidence on the effectiveness of...
14.05.10
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Exploring the Solar System
The BBC has archived sections from its TV programmes about the solar system and embedded them in this truly magnificent website. The site is arranged over seven sets of topics (sun and planets (9 topics); moons (19); other bodies (5); ‘highlights’ (8); space missions (37); astronauts (8); scientists (10)). Each of these 'sets' has its own page with hot links to the individual topics and a brief...
26.04.10
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Music-ITE: Using Music Technology in Performance
This resource on the Music-ITE website shows a group of PGCE students from the University of Cumbria explore using simple music technology devices in small group composition and performance for mixed ensembles. This is followed by some thoughts and reflections on the place of music technology in classroom music making, and a discussion of some of the advantages and disadvantages.
17.04.10
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Secondary Special Needs - Inclusion and Autism
This is a Teachers TV programme about the inclusion of pupils with autism in a secondary school. This resource is ideal for newly qualified secondary school teachers or experienced teachers who have not worked with individuals with ASD before. This resource could also be used as part of a CPD (Continual Professional Development) day in a primary school to look at transitions for individuals with...
26.03.10
Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs
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What Money Means - for primary schools
The Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg) is an independent charity helping schools to plan and teach personal finance relevant to students' lives and needs. Their philosophy is underpinned by both government policy and independent reviews affirming the need for personal finance education. This link directs readers to the ‘What Money Means’ micro-site, which presents an overview of pfeg’s...
26.03.10
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Digital participation, digital literacy, and school subjects: A review of the policies, literature and evidence
The clearly stated aim of this thirty-page document is to “provide a critical introduction to the policies and research on the subjects of digital literacy and digital participation, seeking to show what they mean for classroom practice". Published in 2009, the document forms a recent addition to Futurelab’s Digital Participation project, a research and development programme which models, trials...
23.03.10
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Analysis of factors influencing the contribution of talk to learning during collaborative group work in science
This is a paper presented at the 2009 BERA Conference. The report considers the factors that affect pupil contributions during collaborative work in science. It reviews approaches to analysing the cognitive demand of talk in groups, the rules and roles in group talk and the nature of group tasks. The paper presents evidence from primary school classrooms to show their possible impact on cognitive...
12.03.10
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Teachers as Readers: Building Communities of Readers
This is an executive summary of the United Kingdom Literacy Association’s project focusing on the role of teachers in developing communities of readers. It follows the Phase I report that sought to ascertain teachers’ personal reading habits, investigated their knowledge of children’s literature and noted how teachers reported use of literature in their classrooms.
25.02.10
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ICT for the Non-Specialist - Podcasting
This is a 15 minute Teachers TV video about ICT for the non-specialist teacher and looks at the topic of podcasting. The context is a Cheshire primary school and the video shows the work of a year 6 class in producing a podcast about a school trip to the Isle of Wight and also the work of a year 5 class producing a video podcast in French. The pupils are quite experienced in producing podcasts...
26.11.09
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citizED: Employment and consumer rights and responsibilities
Briefing paper for trainee teachers focusing on teaching pupils about employment and consumer rights and responsibilities, which illustrates curricular requirements and provides examples of how these topics might be taught to pupils in an engaging way.
14.11.09
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Technology and school improvement: reducing social inequity with technology?
This resource is a 124-page description of a survey of schools to investigate the degree to which technology enhances social equality and school improvement. The schools selected are those being removed from special measures or are under notice to improve (following Ofsted inspection). The Becta funded project was conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London...
13.11.09
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ITTE: Creativity and ICT
The purpose of this resource is to provide high quality guidance material for new Initial Teacher Education (ITE) tutors of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that will help them explore the link between creativity and ICT. It will provide an exploration of the key points and issues, and some practical ideas that tutors can use with their trainees.
17.10.09
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Evaluation of the Training and Development Agency for Schools’ funding for ICT in ITT Projects
The key component of this resource is a 60 page report outlining the impact on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) of targeted funding to support developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In addition, an executive summary is available separately, and there is also a short video overview, six video case studies with notes, a video summary of the case studies and two further...
09.10.09
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Hard to Teach – Secondary Maths Using ICT
The resource is a Teachers TV video highlighting a Mathematical Association project developed to support mathematics teachers tackling hard to teach subjects through the use of ICT. The programme features three different teachers working in their classrooms looking at different KS3 topics of mathematics, supported by two project leaders from the Mathematical Association.
27.07.09
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ICT and attainment: A review of the research literature
The resource is a pdf document, available from Becta’s archives. It is the result of a DfES and Becta funded project to produce a summary of the literature available on ICT and attainment, nationally and internationally, both in primary and secondary schools. The resource was published in 2003. It is one of a pair, undertaken by the same team at King’s college, London and is number 17 in the DfES...
20.07.09
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TDA Standards case study: School based Professional Work: Teaching and Learning
A case study charting the experiences of English specialist trainees on a primary undergraduate programme, including the ways in which the provider tailored provision to help trainees explore how literacy experiences can be developed by using multimodal texts.
28.06.09
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Learning and teaching for dyslexic students - Session Eight
This session is concerned with Areas of need set out in the SEN Code of Practice: Learning and teaching for dyslexic students
04.06.09
Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs
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Creating an inclusive learning environment - Session Thirteen
This session is concerned with Learning environments and partnerships: Creating an inclusive learning environment
04.06.09
Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs
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ITE Session: Making refugee issues a core part of the curriculum - Greg Wallace (2009)
This session focuses on how one school, Woodberry Down Community Primary School, has sought to make refugee issues a core part of the curriculum.
01.06.09
Article published to Multiverse
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