Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom

<p>Runner up in Teach Secondary’s Technology and Innovation Awards 2014 sponsored by Lego, <em>Brilliant Ideas for using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom</em> provides lots of simple practical ideas showing teachers and support staff how they can use ICT to boost the achievement of all pupils. </p><p>How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils?</p><p>This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology experts, this invaluable and newly updated resource will enable you to use ICT effectively to make lessons more accessible, motivating and fun.</p><p>With fifty illustrated case studies and twenty starter activities, this practical resource will help you to introduce new technology into the inclusive classroom. It has been specifically designed to help develop your pupils’ key skills, such as problem solving, developing concepts and communicating to different audiences. In each activity, the authors show why and how a particular resource was used and show how similar techniques can be implemented to open up the curriculum to your learners.</p><p>The authors include timely and realistic advice on how to use a range of technologies from the cheap and cheerful – and even free – to more sophisticated and specialist packages. Find out about:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Apps</li> <li>Blogging</li> <li>Digital animation</li> <li>Podcasting</li> <li>Digital storytelling</li> <li>Wikis</li> <li>Geocaching</li> <li>Coding</li> <li>Games and gaming</li> <li>Sat nav</li> <li>Art packages</li> <li>Twitter</li> </ul><p>Whether you’re already techno-savvy or looking to get started with ICT, this book is full of brilliant ideas on how to engage learners of all abilities using technology. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to integrate creative uses of ICT with the curriculum, this book will prove invaluable.</p> <p>Part 1: Brilliant Ideas </p><p>1 A tale of Tigtag, iPads and invertebrates </p><p>2 Disney and Spielberg need to look to their laurels </p><p>3 Visit museums online and become a Caboodle curator! </p><p>4 Taking a dip in the summer months </p><p>5 Using the technology to teach touch typing </p><p>6 Androids and CapturaTalk narrow the achievement gap </p><p>7 Put comics in the mix: improving narrative skills </p><p>8 Blogging widens horizons </p><p>9 Digital video for life stories </p><p>10 Tell me all about it: recording pupils’ voices in place of writing! </p><p>11 Living on a Prayer with Gigajam </p><p>12 Mathletics: bringing a competitive edge to maths learning </p><p>13 Chatting about Miss Havisham </p><p>14 iMovie supports the curriculum</p><p>15 Choosing wisely </p><p>16 Radio freedom: make a podcast and take control of the airwaves! </p><p>17 Listen and learn with Audio Notetaker </p><p>18 Yes, Wii can: turn-taking and getting fit </p><p>19 Band identity: music and marketing </p><p>20 Relieving the pressure of examinations </p><p>21 Quite Remarkable QR codes on the LearnPad </p><p>22 The art of the matter</p><p>23 Not just an open book </p><p>24 Twitter brings in virtual visitors</p><p>25 High tech hide and seek </p><p>26 Coping with chaos in the classroom </p><p>27 No need to blow it up </p><p>28 Creating a communication-friendly environment with symbols </p><p>29 Visualiser brings classwork into focus </p><p>30 Using a TomTom to make sense of the world </p><p>31 Get the monsters reading </p><p>32 Memory matters </p><p>33 Money, money, money </p><p>34 Using online video to bring citizenship to life </p><p>35 Resounding success: audio in the inclusive classroom </p><p>36 Dawn of the machines </p><p>37 Lights, action, sing karaoke? </p><p>38 Accessible music in a cube </p><p>39 A Word to the Wize </p><p>40 Making school app-propriate </p><p>41 Writing in code </p><p>42 The crazy gerbil </p><p>43 Poetry pleases thanks to Clicker</p><p>44 Video ipads and early years </p><p>45 A mobile phone can be the perfect safety net for vulnerable pupils</p><p>46 A picture is worth so much more than a thousand words </p><p>47 <b>Mapping a child's ability</b> </p><p>48 ‘Come on you lazy lot, let’s go adventuring!’</p><p>49 Making child's play of numbers </p><p>50 What happens to hot ice cream? </p>