Using ICT to Support History Teachers and Teaching

1. Using ICT to Support History Teachers and Teaching Nick BakerTeacher of History and LawBeal High School, Ilford

2. SUPPORTING TEACHERS • On Line Curriculum Resources • On Line Historical Resources • Preparing Resources • Using ICT to Help with Administration

3. On Line Curriculum Resources • National Curriculum • DfES • Virtual Teachers Centre • History Teachers Forum • Ofsted • Exam Boards

4. On Line Historical Resources Finding materials- • Search Engines • Directories-Spartacus EducationalHistory Gateway • A selection of the best of the web-Active HistorySchools HistoryBBC

5. Preparing Resources • The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature • Puzzlemaker • Schools History Image Gallery • Image Search from Google • Encyclopaedias

6. Using ICT to Help with Administration • Lesson planningSetting up a lesson plan templateOrganising files and folders • Assessment • Reporting Progress • Ensuring your data is safeBacking UpVirus Protection

7. SUPPORTING PUPILS’ LEARNING • Independent Research • Lessons Using Commonly Available Software • Interactive and On-Line Lessons • Working With ICT Across the Curriculum

8. Why use ICT in lessons? ICT can help pupils to: • ask historical questions • investigate change, cause and consequence • assess and use a wide range of sources • organise information and ideas and communicate effectively. (BECTA)

9. Why use ICT in lessons? “At the centre of our ICT policy should be the understanding that ICT should be used not for its own sake, or just to develop pupils’ ICT skills but as a way of increasing pupil’s ability to access the History curriculum.” (Beal High School/Baker)

10. Independent Research • Helping pupils know where to look?Using gatewaysCopying onto the Local Network • Strategies to prevent copy and pasting.Five bullet points/factsAnswer a specific questionUse google as a plagiarism detector • Research in lessons or at home?

11. Lessons Using Software on Your School’s Network MS Word (& other word processors) • Software pupils are most familiar with. • Useful for typing up essays, newspaper articles, projects etc. • Useful for assessing and selecting information using copy and paste. • Link to literacy. • Example: Images of Elizabeth, a Year 8 lesson.

12. Lessons Using Software on Your School’s Network Microsoft Excel (or other Spreadsheets) • Useful for analysing and sorting information, numerical or text data. • Producing graphs. • Link to Numeracy. • Example: Cost of World War One, a Year 9 or 10 lesson.

13. Lessons Using Software on Your School’s Network Using other software: Publisher, Powerpoint, HTML editors. • Useful for preparing presentations, encouraging pupils to summarise a wide range of information. • Producing display work for walls or websites. • Assemblies.

14. Lessons Using Software on Your School’s Network A few hints for Computer Room Lessons • Do the lesson yourself! • Know how many computers and how many pupils you will have. • Think about grouping • Set clear ground rules about what software can be used.

15. Lessons Using Software on Your School’s Network A few hints for Computer Room Lessons • Don’t forget usual good practice, e.g. lesson aims. • Make an arrangement for what to do with pupils who have forgotten passwords. • Save work at beginning of the lesson. • Allow time to save and print at the end of the lesson.

16. Interactive and On-Line Lessons • Schools History • Active History • Spartacus Educational • Learning Curve • Commercially Available CD-ROMs • Create your own!

17. Working With ICT Across the Curriculum • The ICT National Curriculum • Delivering Entitlement • Auditing lessons.

18. Using ICT to Support History Teachers and Teaching Nick BakerTeacher of History and LawBeal High School, Ilford