Teachers using ICT in administration and lesson planning

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Teachers using ICT in administration and lesson
planning

• Module 2 Workshop 2

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Focus questions

• Should teachers use ICT in schools?
• Can ICT make teachers more efficient in their
  daily tasks?

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Factors influencing effective use of ICT

• A clear vision of ICT
• should be communicated to all levels of staff
  and the wider school community.
• Head teachers should personally use ICT
• to raise the profile of ICT in school.
• Participate in online communities
• to help reduce professional isolation.
• Access is needed to professional development
• for strategic leadership of ICT.
• Effective use of EMIS
• to reduce the time spent on administrative
  tasks and provide useful data.

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Weighing up the evidence

• Work in pairs. (45 min)
• Open the Showing Evidence tool.
• Link in resources column
• You may alter the wording of the claim
• View the videos listed in the resource column.
• Decide what evidence each video provides.
• Discuss the evidence
• Update the Showing Evidence tool after each
  video.

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Weighing up the evidence

• Work in pairs (30 min)
• Read the scenarios and view the examples
  documents
• Links in resource column
• Decide what evidence each provides.
• Discuss the evidence
• Update the Showing Evidence tool after viewing
  each resource.

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Should teachers use ICT in schools? Can ICT make
teachers more efficient in their daily tasks?

• Work in pairs. (15 min)
• Discuss evidence that refutes the claim
• Update the Showing Evidence tool
• move evidence to appropriate list (red or
  green)
• or
• colour negative evidence in red text and positive
  evidence in green text (word processor)

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Conclusions and action

• Meet as a whole group (15 min)
• What is your conclusion?
• What actions do you intend to take based on your
  conclusion?
• Update your course workbook item 2-2 .