ICT in Primary Education

You can activate your pupils and show their progress to the parents

I am really excited about this research done by Dr. Mitra. It goes to show that barriers to ICT access can be significantly minimized and all students can gain access. In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children's education takes us through a series of startling results - children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves.

I was recently introduced to this research and found it fascinating. I am going to try to use some of this research in my own classroom by giving children access to the technology and giving them some freedom to explore and answer questions for themselves. I am excited to see how it works out!

Professor Mitra came to Argentina as a speaker for the ESSARP Conference in 2013. Fortunately colleagues of mine had the fortune to assist and learn aboit this amazing person from which we can learn a lot! Trust for our students is the key! Not being afraid helps as well! Allowing kids to learn through tools they feel comfortable about is a great success!

Evernote is mainly a note-taking app. It is an amazing tool to write down your thoughts and ideas, organize them by using tags and sync them across various mobile devices. But thanks to a very friendly API, Evernote can do more. If you don't wanna mess with Tumblr, Blogger or WordPress, but you are a major Evernote fan,...

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

This tool is amazing if you use google drive to send and receive files from your students Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive. Its tentacles copy and "hand out" Drive files to a roster of students, giving teachers full control over starter template, sharing configuration, folder organization and file naming, as well as visibility over all work in progress -- including the ability to bulk revoke and revert student editing rights around submission deadlines.

Webs: Create a free website with professionally designed website templates, free web hosting, and easy to use free website builder. No coding skills needed! This is a great user friendly way for our students to create websites to achieve the content learning goal without spending time having to learn webs.com. Better than WIX for students using this type of technology for the 1st time.

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment " Educational Technology Debate

LittleBits is a great set of small electronic components that kids can use to create circuits with moderate complexity. The simple plug-and-play concept is very intuitive and give pupils a first experience in the world of electronics. They can built great intelligent and connected objects in a very short amount of time !

Fantastic Case Study of using an interesting tool to deliver design thinking and the bases for game design for kids.

Thanks Rodrigo. I am passionate about Design Thinking & Visual Thinking.

"The proposed invisible learning concept is the result of several years of research and work to integrate diverse perspectives on a new paradigm of learning and human capital development that is especially relevant in the context of the 21st century. This view takes into account the impact of technological advances and changes in formal, non-formal, and informal education, in addition to the 'fuzzy' metaspaces in between. Within this approach, we explore a panorama of options for future development of education that is relevant today. Invisible Learning does not propose a theory, but rather establishes a metatheory capable of integrating different ideas and perspectives. This has been described as a protoparadigm, which is still in the 'beta' stage of construction." -Cristóbal Cobo & John Moravec

Bring comics to the classroom with educational software that helps students create, share and collaborate on comics - without drawing a line. Use Bitstrips for Schools to teach reading comprehension, writing and digital literacy.

I have read good reviews about bitstrips earlier too, seems a good tool for primary students, a nice way to introduce them to writing stories. Will try it!!!!!

super heros and super powers as well as evil characters are a good way to teach values to chilren and develop storytelling, focuss ideas, etc. I find visual thinking very good for early learning and being able to make comics is great. Thanks for sharing.

My Personal Learning Network

Great stuff! Thanks

I find this pdf extremely useful, especially to those of you who, like me, would like to share available resources with your school staff.

I really like some of the pages that you share in that website, thank you so much. I'm Johana from Ecuador

This seems to be a very useful list of resources.....thanks for sharing.

Interesting report (in Dutch) on the Flemish situation, including a focus on primary schools. Dutch title: MICTIVO 2012: Monitor voor ICT-integratie in het Vlaamse Onderwijs

The Study of the impact of technology in primary schools (STEPS) provides ta detailed picture of national ICT strategies and their impact in primary schools in the 27 countries of the European Union, as well as in Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway. It was carried out by European Schoolnet on behalf of the European Commission.

yup...it's forbiden for me too...

Sorry, maybe only accessible via the internal Schoolnet VPN. Try these direct links instead: Executive Summary: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/studies/documents/study_impact_technology_primary_school/01_executive_summary_steps_en.pdf Full synthesis report: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/studies/documents/study_impact_technology_primary_school/02_synthesis_report_steps_en.pdf

It is an excellent website to assess students' working in a number of mathematical skills. It is for all grades and it gives instant feedback.

This binder contains lots of interactive art games for kids!

Discover libraries of high quality Languages teaching resources for French, Spanish and German, created by teachers for teachers - proven in the classroom, edited for quality and consistency.

Having drawn shapes using the Pro-Bot last time, this week for the fourth lesson I teach the children how to enter commands more quickly (and therefore more accurately too) by using the repeat button.