I had a great time down in London on Friday. My first presentation was at Redbridge Teacher Centre in Ilford. The teachers I met in Redbridge were doing some amazing stuff using technology to engage and enhance learning.
Anthony Evans (amazing guy) or follow him on Twitter @skinnyboyevans organised the day so BIG thank you Anthony. You can check out Anthony’s blogpost on my presentation.
Feedback from teachers on Teach-It was really positive even though most of them were into ICT in a big way. Wordle, Picnik and of-course Google Earth were some of the favourite applications.
I also had the pleasure of meeting Del Singh from Woodlands Primary in Redbridge. Del has introduced Teach-It to all staff in his school to enrich the teaching of their ICT scheme. Del described how he gave the pupils a photocopy of the skills they were learning which included steps on how to meet the learning objective. He said that pupils worked at their own pace to complete the activity in the Digital Image Section (Idea 2). Pupils then applied their new skills of saving images from sites such as Google, Flickr and DeviantArt into a PowerPoint presentations on their topic this term – Ancient Egypt.
Here is just one of a huge number of positive quotes from Del’s students:
‘The only place I knew I could search for images was Google Images….now I know about flikr and deviantart’ – Yr 5 pupil
Here is an example of the staff feedback:
‘A good resource that also get pupils reading and following instructions’ – Caroline Jones
‘All in all I think this is an innovative resource that supports pupils learning of current technologies’ – Del Singh
Here is an example of the feedback sent so far on how the pilot is going:
Teacher led learning at Woodlands - Redbridge
Check out more of these images here.
Thanks everyone :0)
