[senit] ICT suite lessons

We decided against installing an ICT suite - we

are the laptops networked?
david

--- Mandy Griffin <mandy at southview.essex.sch.uk>
wrote:

> We decided against installing an ICT suite - we
> bring a trolley of 
> laptops (plus there are 3 PC's in each class) to the
> classroom to 
> deliver ICT lessons. Each classroom has a smartboard
> hooked up to a PC 
> permanently. The laptops are not just used for ICT
> lessons, but support 
> just about every lesson in school. We often have a
> situation where 
> every child in a lesson that can use a computer has
> a computer to work 
> at on their own.
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message----
> From: davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk
> Date: 23/01/2007 20:45
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subj: Re: [senit] ICT suite lessons
> 
> hi, and thanks for your responses. The conclusion
> seems to be that 30 mins is too short for a 2 or 3
> part lesson so that in that amount of time I can
> either stay at the IWB and differntiate for the
> group
> or have the class working individually at PCs. Or
> maybe alternate these approaches. An alternative is
> small group work but that would require LSAs to
> teach
> rather than monitoring a small group - and they
> would
> need training up on that. Oout of interest how much
> time per week would students spend in the ICT suite
> at
> SLD schools or provision? 
> david
> --- Alison Barton <abarton3 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't teach in school so may be way off track
> here
> > (my classes are 16-19's
> > mostly and the most I have in one room at a time
> is
> > 8 but there is no whole
> > group work it is all done 1:1 either with me
> (tutor)
> > or a support worker. I
> > use the IWB for 1:1 work only as I have found that
> > my learners (LDD inc
> > Autism) don't 'do' group work well. Plus they are
> > usually all doing
> > different tasks anyway so there is no group as
> such,
> > rather 8 individuals
> > working in the same room.
> > 
> > My idea is that you ditch the IWB whole group
> intro
> > for the 30 min class and
> > have whatever the activity you are doing already
> > loaded on the desktops for
> > each learner or brief them in the classroom prior
> to
> > the ICT session if poss
> > - that would mean they have more time on the task
> > and maybe you would have
> > time for the plenary on the IWB.
> > 
> > Hope you don't mind me chipping in on this, I am
> > conscious that have no
> > experience with ICT in school or younger learners.
> > 
> > Alison.
> > 
> > On 23/01/07, david fettes
> <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > hi , anyone teach ICT to large classes (SLD) in
> > ICT
> > > suite?
> > > in one lesson I have 45 mins and this is just
> > enough
> > > for a short session round the IWB first , but in
> > > another lesson with another class I have 30 mins
> > and
> > > there doesn't seem enough time for the IWB intro
> > let
> > > alone a plenary. 10 students in class. Anyone
> got
> > any
> > > solutions/ideas?
> > > thanks
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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