Struggling to engage unmotivated students? A one-off opportunity is available…
Use ICT to bring fun and effective learning techniques to your while school curriculum with this one-off session run by John Rutherford - national award-winning teacher (Becta Award 2005), Lead Practitioner in ICT for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, and co-founder of What2Learn. This session has been organised by the SSAT and should be booked through them (see below).
Is your school struggling to engage groups of boys in their learning? Do you seem to have increasing levels of students with ADHD-type symptoms who are finding it difficult to settle to appropriate learning activities? This practical workshop will equip you with a range of ICT-based solutions which will help you to harness the energies of these students and get them learning in ways that tap into their enjoyment of the interactive, multimedia world around them.
Hurry - limited places are available and they are going fast!
In addition to being provided with hundreds of ready-made fun and colourful resources for use right across the secondary curriculum, you will also develop the ability to create resources specific to the needs of your students. These resources could be being used in your classrooms the very next day or enhancing the quality of your school website or VLE. You will even create learning games for use on the Nintendo Wii. Teachers with all levels of ICT-literacy will be warmly welcomed onto this workshop.
Draft Agenda
09:00 - 16:00
12th November 2008
Hertfordshire
Sessions / activities…
• Quick and easy ways to create bespoke, interactive learning activities for networks, VLEs and websites
• Making learning games for use on a Nintendo Wii
• Learning and automated assessment through games
• Assessment for learning – empowering students through ICT
• Integrating web 2.0 into an exhilarating curriculum
• How to get the whole school involved
Objectives and learning outcomes:
There has been massive investment in ICT in schools over recent years. Although effective in improving infrastructure and management systems, the return on this investment in terms of teaching and learning has been questionable. Many schools are finding growing levels of disaffection amongst their learners (often boys in particular) and a related rise in ADHD-related conditions. The seminar aims to help keen teachers to begin to redress this by: • Enabling all teachers to quickly and easily create bespoke learning games for use in starters, plenaries or main activities. They will be able to be shared with colleagues, placed within a VLE or added to a school website. • Providing a huge number of ready-made interactive resources which could be raising student engagement and performance in school the very next day. • Creating learning environments which are more in line with the multimedia-rich, interactive experiences students enjoy out of school and make the most of web 2.0 technologies. • Use of ICT to reduce the ever-growing administrative burden on teachers through automating elements of marking and feedback.
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Further information
Packages offered:
- LP Seminar delegate fee including lunch (£69.00)
Key contact: Catherine Manning
Contact email: SCNEvents@SSATrust.org.uk
Contact tel: 0207 802 0789
(When contacting SSAT about this event please quote Event ID SVN1007394)
