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Teachers are discovering the value of imparting media-literacy skills, from critical analysis of news programs, commercials, and films to basic design and video-production techniques.

Literacy in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is fundamental to life in our modern technological society. To equip students to be literate life long learners and global citizens of the 21st century we must successfully integrate ICT into both the English curriculum and English pedagogical practice.

Journal article exploring the experiences of teachers implementing ICT within their high school maths lessons.

Although this work was published in 2002, it provides a thorough discussion of ICT as a strategy against poverty. Many concepts here remain relevant and thought provoking 12 years on. Harris investigates possibilities for ICT based education, e-learning, and life-long learning to forge "substantial improvements in the daily lives of millions of poor people". This work could be linked to Year 10 History and the Depth Study on Rights and Freedoms.

A website useful for science teachers that can help teachers pick a topic and use instructions to play with the visual simulations. Very useful for students to understand a topic

""There's this prevailing voice in education is that we need to keep testing kids and fix education with big data. But I think you see a mindset in the film that's more about engaging and inspiring kids. And if there's anything I'm passionate about it's that if we just engage and inspire our kids, they'll do great things.""

An example of how university students are using Skype in the classroom