ICT in Primary Education

Interested in creating blogs for kids? There are lots of blogs around and many of them are geared toward youngsters. One thing you must do when producing blogs for children is to make sure that your content is appropriate for the little loved ones - warm and friendly.

"Comment évaluer de manière critique les ressources issues de l'Internet?"

Stage 1 Sign up to twitter following persuasion/pestering by colleagues. Follow Stephen Fry, a famous sportsman/popstar and a news channel. Read a few tweets, don't understand what the fuss is about and mock anyone who uses twitter. Stage 2 Overhear colleagues chatting about twitter and a great article they found.

some useful tools for getting started.

"L'iPad en classe de français, un outil pertinent?"

Keep up great work! Thank you for sharing!

This looks like it could be interesting for Unit 5 of the ICT in Primary Education course, if you have the time!

"The very tool designed to level the playing field is, in fact, un-leveling it," they wrote in a 2012 book based on their Philadelphia library study. With the spread of educational technology, they predicted, "the not-so-small disparities in skills for children of affluence and children of poverty are about to get even larger."

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Muy interesante la información, gracias por compartir!

NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, and provides resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations for parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. Site's contents are in English and although there are no captioned or translated videos, some texts are also available in Spanish.

The Kidsmart website has been written by Childnet International, a non-profit organisation working to help make the internet a great place for children. Resources specially produced for the website are the result of a wide consultation with officials from the Department for Education & Skills (DfES) and British Educational Communications & Technology Agency (BECTA), as well as other charities, police liaison officers, school teachers, Local Education Authorities (LEA), ICT co-ordinators, and parents and pupils themselves.

This sixth K-12 edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.

Tablets are playing a pivotal role in placing future education experiences in the hands of teachers and students, giving them access to highly engaging and interactive learning materials.

Globalization and rapid technological change have made knowledge a critical determinant of competitiveness in the world economy. The World Bank is playing an important role in assisting countries in taking advantage of the opportunities in information and communications technologies (ICTs) to contribute to education goals and poverty reduction strategies.

This background summarises the evidence base from which the ICT capability's introduction, organising elements and learning continuum have been developed. It draws on recent international and national research, as well as initiatives and programs that focus on ICT across the curriculum.