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Keep I.T. Real
Alex Savage, AST www.ndhs.org.uk asavage_at_notredame
high.norfolk.sch.uk
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• Imagine your school with no budgetary,
  curriculum or time constraints. What would be
  your vision for the delivery of ICT in that
  school?
• One of the perennial problems in the area of
  technological change in schools is the
  understandable temptation to write about the
  future before we fully understand the present.
  Chris Abbott 2001 ICT Changing Education,
  Routledge

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QCA National Curriculum Review

• The curriculum is an underlying cause of student
  disaffection
• For too many young people, the last thing the
  curriculum does is inspire and challenge
• QCA wants to help schools adopt more cross
  subject teaching

Mick Waters QCA Director of Curriculum
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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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Is Communication at the heart of ICT?
How much real communication do students do in ICT?
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Do students use the Web to find out about the
Wider World?
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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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Correlation between height and shoe size
What else correlates with your 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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SurveyAtSchool
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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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www.elanguages.org/
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What pets do you have? Click on reply and type
your message.
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Qu'est-ce que tu fais le weekend?

• Eymeric Bonjour. le samedi je vais à lécole de
  8,30 h à 11,30h et l' aprés midije joue avec mes
  amis et mon frère.Le dimanche je joue toute la
  journée.
• Ludivine Le samedi aprés-midi je fais de
  l'athlétisme et le dimanche je m'ennuie.
• Marie Je marche à la montagne avec mon amoureux
  !!!

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Real Audience
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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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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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Can real links in ICT 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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Dissemination
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My Vision for ICT

• Real world curriculum
• Cross curricula themes
• Real communication
• Use of web 2.0 collaboration tools
• Student voice research
• Disseminate web based teaching resources