ABSTRACT

Runner up in Teach Secondary’s Technology and Innovation Awards 2014 sponsored by Lego, Brilliant Ideas for using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom provides lots of simple practical ideas showing teachers and support staff how they can use ICT to boost the achievement of all pupils.

How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils?

This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology experts, this invaluable and newly updated resource will enable you to use ICT effectively to make lessons more accessible, motivating and fun.

With fifty illustrated case studies and twenty starter activities, this practical resource will help you to introduce new technology into the inclusive classroom. It has been specifically designed to help develop your pupils’ key skills, such as problem solving, developing concepts and communicating to different audiences. In each activity, the authors show why and how a particular resource was used and show how similar techniques can be implemented to open up the curriculum to your learners.

The authors include timely and realistic advice on how to use a range of technologies from the cheap and cheerful – and even free – to more sophisticated and specialist packages. Find out about:

  • Apps
  • Blogging
  • Digital animation
  • Podcasting
  • Digital storytelling
  • Wikis
  • Geocaching
  • Coding
  • Games and gaming
  • Sat nav
  • Art packages
  • Twitter

Whether you’re already techno-savvy or looking to get started with ICT, this book is full of brilliant ideas on how to engage learners of all abilities using technology. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to integrate creative uses of ICT with the curriculum, this book will prove invaluable.

part 1|86 pages

Brilliant Ideas

chapter Brilliant Idea 1|2 pages

A tale of Tigtag, iPads and invertebrates

chapter Brilliant Idea 2|2 pages

Disney and Spielberg need to look to their laurels

chapter Brilliant Idea 4|1 pages

Taking a dip in the summer months

chapter Brilliant Idea 5|1 pages

Chatting about Miss Havisham

chapter Brilliant Idea 6|2 pages

Using the technology to teach touch typing

chapter Brilliant Idea 8|2 pages

Put comics in the mix: improving narrative skills

chapter Brilliant Idea 9|2 pages

Blogging widens horizons

chapter Brilliant Idea 10|2 pages

Digital video for life stories

chapter Brilliant Idea 12|2 pages

'Living on a Prayer' with Gigajam

chapter Brilliant Idea 14|1 pages

iMovie supports the curriculum

chapter Brilliant Idea 15|1 pages

Choosing wisely

chapter Brilliant Idea 17|2 pages

Listen and learn with Audio Notetaker

chapter Brilliant Idea 18|2 pages

Yes, Wii can: turn-taking and getting fit

chapter Brilliant Idea 19|1 pages

Band identity: music and marketing

chapter Brilliant Idea 20|1 pages

The art of the matter

chapter Brilliant Idea 21|2 pages

Relieving the pressure of examinations

chapter Brilliant Idea 22|2 pages

Quite remarkable QR codes on the LearnPad

chapter Brilliant Idea 23|2 pages

Not just an open book

chapter Brilliant Idea 24|2 pages

Twitter brings in virtual visitors

chapter Brilliant Idea 25|2 pages

High-tech hide and seek

chapter Brilliant Idea 26|1 pages

Coping with chaos in the classroom

chapter Brilliant Idea 27|1 pages

No need to blow it up

chapter Brilliant Idea 29|2 pages

Visualiser brings classwork into focus

chapter Brilliant Idea 30|2 pages

Using a TomTom to make sense of the world

chapter Brilliant Idea 31|2 pages

Get the monsters reading

chapter Brilliant Idea 32|1 pages

Memory matters

chapter Brilliant Idea 33|1 pages

Making school app-propriate

chapter Brilliant Idea 34|2 pages

Money, money, money

chapter Brilliant Idea 36|2 pages

Dawn of the machines

chapter Brilliant Idea 37|2 pages

Lights, action, sing karaoke?

chapter Brilliant Idea 38|1 pages

Accessible music in a cube

chapter Brilliant Idea 39|1 pages

A Word to the Wize

chapter Brilliant Idea 40|2 pages

Writing in code

chapter Brilliant Idea 41|2 pages

The crazy gerbil

chapter Brilliant Idea 42|2 pages

Poetry pleases thanks to Clicker 6

chapter Brilliant Idea 43|1 pages

Making the news when you are four!

chapter Brilliant Idea 44|1 pages

Using online video to bring citizenship to life

chapter Brilliant Idea 47|2 pages

Mapping a child's ability

chapter Brilliant Idea 48|2 pages

Making child's play of numbers

chapter Brilliant Idea 49|2 pages

What happens to hot ice cream?

chapter Brilliant Idea 50|1 pages

'Come on you lazy lot, let's go adventuring!'

part 2|32 pages

Now it's your turn

chapter Brilliant Starter 1|1 pages

Using Popplet or Padlet

chapter Brilliant Starter 2|2 pages

Using the Book Creator app or Publisher to make a book

chapter Brilliant Starter 3|1 pages

Using Audio Notetaker

chapter Brilliant Starter 4|1 pages

Using digital images

chapter Brilliant Starter 5|2 pages

Using sound and easy-speak microphones

chapter Brilliant Starter 7|1 pages

Creating your first blog post

chapter Brilliant Starter 9|1 pages

Using iMovie on the iPad

chapter Brilliant Starter 10|2 pages

Adapting Word

chapter Brilliant Starter 11|2 pages

Choosing a suitable spelling program

chapter Brilliant Starter 12|1 pages

Using Clicker 6

chapter Brilliant Starter 13|1 pages

Using GarageBand

chapter Brilliant Starter 14|2 pages

Using I Can Animate

chapter Brilliant Starter 15|2 pages

Creating an app with AppFurnace

chapter Brilliant Starter 16|2 pages

Using iMovie

chapter Brilliant Starter 17|2 pages

Using Movie Maker

chapter Brilliant Starter 18|1 pages

Using Photostory3

chapter Brilliant Starter 19|1 pages

Creating a comic with Comic Life

chapter Brilliant Starter 20|2 pages

A quick start to using Excel