USING ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING MAY BE APPROACHED IN THREE WAYS:

USING ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING MAY BE APPROACHED IN THREE WAYS:

Learning about ICT: teachers and children develop skills and knowledge in the potential uses of ICT to support learning.

Learning with ICT: teachers and children use ICT resources to support the classroom curriculum.

Learning through ICT: teachers and children use ICT to transform the process of teaching and learning, learning in new ways.

The use of ICT in teaching and learning in such ways, does not follow a continuum, rather, these functions are inter-related and mutually supportive. Much of children’s learning about ICT will develop as an integral part of learning with ICT.

At the same time, it is acknowledged that learning about ICT will be necessary in order to successfully use ICT tools to support the curricular objectives, and to learn in new ways.

                Learning through ICT, which supports the general aim of ICT use in the Primary School Curriculum, places a greater emphasis on the recognition of individual difference, and the use of varied approaches and methodologies in teaching

The Primary School Curriculum advocates a range of approaches and methodologies for teaching and learning. This section describes ways in which ICT can enhance these approaches and methodologies and provide teachers and children with a powerful learning resource