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What the research tells usResearch indicates that to implement ICT successfully in their classrooms teachers must ...understand what visual literacy is and rethink what learning to read and write means in the 21st century. (Goodwyn et al 1997; Reid et al, 2002) The research also indicates that ICT is most effective when embedded in the curriculum, and integrated into units of work (Dickinson, 1998). English teachers can maximize the impact of ICT in their classrooms by ensuring that they and their students use ICT as an integral part of lessons, present ideas dynamically, and use a range of media. (Becta, 2006). ICT should be integrated in such a way as to require purposeful application and meaningful engagement with the technology. For example:while pupils are using a desk top publishing package to create a school newspaper they are also developing their ability to communicate more effectively. This provides both a context and a meaning for the ICT activity. Taking the IT out of context and teaching IT skills separately, not only decontextualises ICT but also places additional burdens on curriculum time. The use of ICT therefore should be a meaningful part of an activity where it is used to consolidate or extend pupils' learning. (Lewisham ICT Training for Teachers,2006)To implement ICT successfully in their classrooms teachers also need to:identify how ICT can be used to meet specific objectives within the English curriculum to improve pupils attainment (Moseley et al,1999)understand that successful use of ICT depends on other factors such as pupils’ work in the classroom away from the computer, discussions between pupils and between pupils and their teacher, and the ways in which pupils interact with each other at the computer (Mc Cormick and Scrimshaw,2001 cited in Becta, 2005)

Raise other questions for students to explore in the future;

Help students to make sense of further activities and experiences which have been planned for them.

Provide students with the opportunity to process the information they have gathered and present this in a number of ways; and

Allow for a diverse range of outcomes.

Provide more information in order to broaden the range of understandings available to the students.

Help students draw conclusions about what they have learnt; and Provide opportunities for reflection both on what has been learnt and on the learning process itself.

Assist students to make links between their understanding and their experience in the real world; Enable students to make choices and develop the belief that they can be effective participants in society; and Provide further insight into students' understandings for future unit planning.

a good rule of thumb is that we should only bring ideas from the laboratory into our teaching if (1) we are sure that the laboratory phenomena exist under at least some conditions and (2) we understand how to usefully apply these laboratory phenomena to instruction

And Henry L. Roediger and his associates at Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated the value of testing for learning.

We shouldn't congratulate ourselves for showing a video to engage the visual learners or offering podcasts to the auditory learners

we should realize that the value of the video or audio will be determined by how it suits the content that we are asking students to learn and the background knowledge, interests, and abilities that they bring to

the preference for visually presented information.

bias for visually presented information.

The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally.

The technologies that benefit young children the greatest are those that are interactive and allow the child to develop their curiosity, problem solving and independent thinking skills.

Children are natural "manipulators" of the world

With television, they watch and do not control anything

cameras and tape recorders and video cameras in the classroom

children think differently than adults

What's important is when experience is provided and how it's mixed in with other crucial experiences.

Parents and teachers must act as facilitators in children's learning.

parents and teachers can take advantage of the interactive qualities of a computer to enhance the experiences available to children.

our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children

he key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world

as with all other tools, adults must protect children from misuse or inappropriate access.

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ontrolling access to content that may not be developmentally appropriate.

ccess to information that is developmentally appropriate is something that we need to be very concerned about

may think that buildings are blowing up all over the place and many planes crashed — rather than understanding that these multiple stories are actually from single events

word processor and they can hand in papers that are clean and neat and they can see how to spell words correctly

put them on a

simplest level,

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arge motor problem

heir handwriting is very immature and very slow and looks sloppy