ICT in Primary Education

Hi Renata, I´ve started the same course that you!! I´m excited about that, and I hope we can learn and share a lot of ideas with other mates.

I have started the course also. I hope it will help with the better integration of iCT into my class programme.

I have joined ICT today. Am quite excited about learning new ideas which we can adopt in our preschool. I will also share some of our learnings over the next few weeks!

http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214720.pdf, very comprehensive material. Nice to read.

Just started an ICT course from Coursera. It has made me jump from one exciting resource link to another before I could even finish the first activity! Absolutely loving it! I look forward to testing some of the ideas with my 6 yr old who is quite excited about technology. And as a parent I feel good if that gadget time is put to good use.

5th week already. A good experience so far. Comprehensive materials indeed.

I have also started the ICT course from Coursera. I'm willing to see all of your proposals on materials, web pages, programs, etc., and I'm hoping to share some ideas with you too.

Hi group, I enrolled today in this course and I have high expectations. I am excited to read your comments. I look forward to share thoughts with you.

Hi from me too, I enrolled also in this course and I hope it will help me with the better understanding of ICT. I hope we can share a lot of ideas and thoughts.

Good evening - at least it is evening where i live- I enrolled this course today and hope we can do our best.

Hello to all! I have been absent from the field of primary education for some time and feel the need to update myself in new knowledge and new ideas, in such a fast paced world. I hope this course helps me!

Hi, Our school is starting it's third week of Online curriculum, after the government has closed schools. Using Google Classroom has been interesting. Too much screen time for some pupils - headaches for my wife and I looking at screens without adequate breaks. I am looking forward to the course.

Hi, I'm a casual/supply teacher and looking forward to the course.

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Hi all, I enrolled today in this course and I am thoroughly looking forward to learning a lot from you. I can wait to read and share with you.

Hi!!!I enrolled this course and i am very excited about all the new interesting thing that I am learning. I am looking forward for more!!!

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Hello! interesting experience! glad that together with you

I use Edmodo in my school too and it is a great tool to communicate with students and parents, share resources with other teachers, assess, provide feedback... There are many things to do there!

Edmodo was used in my previous school, it's like a learning-based version of facebook. Teachers can post links and videos for students to do their study at home, and it's easy for teachers to check on each student's progress and response rate.

I use it regularly too in my classes. I post useful links for students , videos we watch in the class, reinforcements, etc

Awesome tool, will need whole school approach though which may be difficult for government schools and or third world countries where these platforms or use of technology is only made available at privileged school and rarely at home.

awesome too. Our school is using a different app but I would like to try this especially for my own school to see how it works with my teachers and students.

I love it! I think it's a way of making parents close to what happen at class, as well as an amusing way of creating a relation with the students, it's not the conventional and serious way to which I am used to. I'll use it for sure.

I have used Edmodo and it is a very good application to share content with the students, you can share websites links interesting for them. Besides, students can share too.

Hi! I was looking at the site and it has a diverse set of FREE games and activities. I can easily include a link from this website on one of my Maths lessons as some extra practice. Loved it.

Hello! I loved it! I will use it! The sounds and feedback are so cute, kids will really enjoy the games! I was thinking about the shapes games, I can do it as a post activity! thank you!

Wow! This is an amazing tool, thank you for sharing!

Like it, easy for children to create their own, as you suggest, book cover. Technology in kids hands should evoke creativity and not only be a means of media consumption.

A very useful tool. Can be used for creative designing.

We can practice adjectives, nouns , verbs, adverbs. We can make them to create Noun Cloud. :) That would be awesome. It motivates children to create some very personalize. They would chose the shapes for their group of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, etc.

Which is a good software to help students (4-5 yrs) prepare a simple slideshow or arrange pictures in a logical sequence (eg. transformation of a butterfly from egg to adult)?

There are a lot of different ways of using word clouds as far as EFL is concerned. You name it: 1) predict the content of a text e.g. topics, style, purpose, etc. 2) writing or speaking prompts 3) reading comprehension questions just, then comparing answers after reading the actual text 4) summarise a presentation 5) identify or create the key words to a text 6) expanding vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or brainstorm words associated with a new one, match parts of collocations) 7) explore a topic (students add own ideas to a question stimulus & build a cloud) 8) student ice-breaker 9) highlight examples of misspelled or overused words in student writing by inputting their own work 10) 'grammar game' e.g. students classify words from a cloud into different parts of speech or different tenses 11) 'sentence structure' game e.g. input a complex sentence or short series of sentences into a word cloud, and have students reconstruct them in the correct word order 12) 'memory game' e.g. show a word cloud, take it off the screen, students write as many words as they can recall 13) identify parts of speech (students highlight or underline in different colours) 14) Students pre-assessing their own knowledge and understanding - "What does something mean to me?" as in a KWL chart

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I have seen these in classrooms. They definitely seem to help the students.

This looks great! With a special educational set of images too. I use too much words in my slides and creating a video will certainly get me away from words and focus on the flow of the story I want to tell.

This looks amazing, I'll try to use it. It would be nice to use it to share a story with the students since some struggle to understand only by listening. Thank you for sharing this with us.

An amazing tool to create more interesting videos and slides enhencing students into the topic. It looks pretty easy to use, it is kind of similar to powtoon but it looks easier.

this is great! i cant wait to try it with my class.