“Learning platforms offer safe and secure web access to teaching, learning and management resources for the whole education community” Link click: HERE To reflect on a learning communities it’s important to understand what they are and why they are useful to us. So what is a learning Community? Learning communities like these are different […]
reflection: Barrs and Horrocks: ‘Educational blogs and their effects of pupils’ writing’
“Good writing has purpose – i.e. it means something to somebody; it tells you something new about the world / contains original ideas; it is not just ‘correct’ – doesn’t have to be accurate and obey the rules” Summary: How to be an effective blogger within the school environment and how the repercussions of this […]
Tim Berners-Lee: Answers for young people
Summary: “The Web is a tool for communication. Let’s use the web to create neat new exciting things. Let’s use the Web to help people understand each other.” For the Link Click HERE This article which Tim-Berners-Lee has written to assist young children in their projects suggests that the main use of the internet is […]
Supporting community cohesion through ICT: the ‘epartners’ programme in Northern Ireland Review
Summery The importance of computers in supporting community cohesion allowing children to develop their own personal social skills, communication and technological skills as well as identify the areas of which teachers struggle and how this can affect the teaching of computing. Link: Click HERE ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Computing or ICT skills that are developed in a […]