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
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 3|2 pages
Visit museums online and become a Caboodle curator!
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 7|2 pages
Androids and CapturaTalk narrow the achievement gap
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 11|2 pages
Tell me all about it recording pupils' voices in place of writing!
chapter Brilliant Idea 12|2 pages
'Living on a Prayer' with Gigajam
chapter Brilliant Idea 13|2 pages
Mathletics: bringing a competitive edge to maths learning
chapter Brilliant Idea 14|1 pages
iMovie supports the curriculum
chapter Brilliant Idea 15|1 pages
Choosing wisely
chapter Brilliant Idea 16|2 pages
Radio freedom: make a podcast and take control of the airwaves!
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 28|2 pages
Creating a communication-friendly environment with symbols
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 35|2 pages
Resounding success: audio in the inclusive classroom
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 45|2 pages
A mobile phone can be the perfect safety net for vulnerable pupils
chapter Brilliant Idea 46|2 pages
A picture is worth so much more than a thousand words
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
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