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New technologies, new opportunities, new
challenges
Presentation at the conference Planning and
Connecting in the Science Curriculum Radenci,
Slovenia 16-18 December 2001

• Tim Brosnan
• Institute of Education
• University of London

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The opportunities enhancing learning by using
ICT to

• Find
• Collect
• Evaluate
• Explore
• Visualise
• CommunicateScientific ideas and information

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The challenges to develop

• A vision of how ICT can help our pupils learn
• The technical skills and capabilities to start
  using ICT with confidence
• The organisation skills required to use the
  technologies effectively - including developing a
  new role for ourselves in the classroom
• Not to forget our pedagogic aims and values

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The opportunity finding information by asking
The challenge not to wander meaninglessly in
hyperspace
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The opportunity finding information from a portal
The challenge what is my role?
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The opportunity collecting information from an
experiment
The challenge not to use a hammer to crack a nut
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The opportunity evaluating information
The challenge to use information not (just) copy
it
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The opportunity exploring ideas through modelling
The challenge to relate models and reality
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The opportunity visualising phenomena
The challenge to value substance over style
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The opportunity pupils communicating information
The challenge to value capability more than
skills
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The opportunity teachers communicating ideas
The challenge to weed out the useful
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Summary

• Key opportunity to use new tools to achieve old
  pedagogic aims in a way that has never before
  been possible
• Key challenge to reconsider our role and develop
  new pedagogic practices

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Further information
http//www.ioe.ac.uk/scitech/Staff/TB/slovenia/