What ICT can add

ICT supports Katie’s teaching in every way she can think of, whether it’s projecting an individual student’s work so they can share it with the class, or building a story as a group. “ICT augments what you’re teaching and makes it more interesting,” Katie confirms. She believes her students benefit because ICT makes the lesson more interesting and more dynamic. There are more elements and layers in an ICT enhanced lesson. “It gives you a way to vary a lesson, especially if you are sitting in a small community centre, around a small table where you don’t have a lot of room to move around.” Katie hopes more teachers will present their teaching material this way so that individual tutors are not constantly having to reinvent the wheel, but instead, can borrow other people’s material while sharing their own. And overall, she feels she has received favourable feedback from her students in her efforts to integrate ICT into her lessons. “If I have access to computers and an overhead projector, then there will always be an element of ICT.” It isn’t the whole lesson, but a valuable part of the lesson.

* Katie has written another expert column about learning styles. Read it here Learning Styles

Useful references:

Useful links

• California Distance Learning -    http://www.cdlponline.org
• Adventure Learning -    http://www.questconnect.org
• Paulo Friere Institute -    http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org
• City College Manchester -    http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills
• BBC World Service, Learning English -    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml
• Browse Aloud -    http://www.browsealoud.com/
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