My home, your home, our home'

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Global Links in ICT
My home, your home, our home.
Alex Savage, AST www.ndhs.org.uk asavage_at_notredame
high.norfolk.sch.uk
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Keep I.T. Real
My home, your home, our home.
Alex Savage, AST www.ndhs.org.uk asavage_at_notredame
high.norfolk.sch.uk
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Who is the most powerful?
Who is the most famous?
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What is Global Education?

• An enhancement of our existing curriculum, not
  a bolt on extra.
• Teaching students about the wider world.
• Providing real information for research.
• Providing real situations to practise skills.
• Providing real audiences to communicate with.

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Why teach global education?
The new century demands that we develop
international understanding, heighten awareness
of Europe and the wider world, and strengthen the
concept of world citizenship in our schools and
colleges. Prime Minister Tony Blair
These new units in ICT are really boring! Notre
Dame Student Survey
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Zoo Feeding Costs, KS3 ICT
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Average UK Family Water Use
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Average Malawian Water Use
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KS3 ICT Units
7.1 Presentations to students at link school 7.3
Leaflets on global location or issue 7.4 Model
statistics on water 8.1 World weather
statistics 8.2 Website on another country or a
global issue 8.3 Internet research on a specific
country 9.2 Online survey to compare lives with
students in other countries
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Correlation between height and shoe size
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Correlation between life expectancy and literacy
Data from 20 most populated countries in the
world. CIA World Factbook.
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Average items of fresh fruit per day
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www.ndhs.org.uk
Type keep it real
Or click here for all global resources
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NORFOLK

• ICT
• All students 1 hour a week of ICT
• Students motivated
• Creative use of specialised websites and software
• Good ICT facilities
• Some training for teachers
• Teacher confidence increasing

• MFL
• No longer have to do exam at 16
• Many students lack purpose to learn MFL
• Primary schools just starting MFL
• Many primary school teachers lack training and
  confidence

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ARIEGE

• MFL
• MFL given more time and importance
• Students see more purpose in learning English
• Primary schools have been teaching MFL for long
  time

• ICT
• Not as much use of ICT as in UK
• Mainly doing word processing
• Primaries have good but fewer ICT facilities
• Teachers need more training and confidence

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Project Aims

• To be creative in MFL using ICT
• To empower teachers and students to communicate
  using ICT (giving purpose to their learning)
• To build partnerships and share good practice
  using ICT

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Video Conferencing with Ariège, France
Web cam
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Varilhes is a village in the South of France.
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Student Survey
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Survey of Y7 Students

• It gets people more involved.
• It really motivates you and makes you like the
  subject.
• It makes you feel that it is worth while learning
  the language.
• You try harder to be understood by the French
  students you are communicating with.
• It makes you look forward to French lessons more.
• It gets rid of stereo typical images.
• It makes you feel closer to people in other
  countries.

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Survey of Y9 Students

• I liked the fact that the information wasn't made
  up so I listened more in the lesson.
• You can get more out of it instead of information
  that has been made up from thin air.
• I liked using real data because I wanted to see
  if the medias portrayal of young Americans is
  true.
• You didnt really know what they were like
  because there werent enough core questions to
  get a picture of the persons life.
• I didn't like it that we didn't actually get to
  communicate at all with the people we were
  surveying.
• It gives you a chance to experience a different
  culture.
• It was interesting to find out real, true
  information about what we wanted to find out.
• I liked the fact that we did this with the USA,
  cos they seem cool, and I wanna go there again!
  its great for shopping!!!!
• Twas' fantab-u-listic.

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Can global links improve learning?
Learning about real places and communicating
with a real audience gives work more meaning and
purpose.
Learning with purpose improves motivation.
Motivated learning improves progress.
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Who is the President of the World Bank?
Find out for homework!
Alex Savage, AST, Notre Dame High School,
Norwich asavage_at_notredamehigh.norfolk.sch.uk