I have taken small steps towards using more ICT in my teaching and, I must say, the postive responses I’ve had from pupils so soon has taken me by surprise in a way. Even doing something as simple as putting the sheet that I handed out to the pupils onto the webpage as a back up, has been well received. One pupil, who was not in school this morning, asked me in the corridor what she had missed. I mentioned an essay plan that was handed out and she immediately said “I’ll get that off the webpage tonight then.” There was no need for her to go all the way to my room and pick up that handout. More importantly to me is how quickly the pupils embrace a better way of doing things.
Over the hoilday period I received homework by e-mail – again, much easier for pupils to just ‘get rid’ of, i.e. hand in the homework, instantly rather than print it off and remember to put it into their schoolbag on the correct day it is due in. Great!
One pupil who was off ill, seem to apprecitate the ability to download the work from the webpage and to receive instruction from me by e-mail.
Well that’s my evaluation so far, but what do the pupils think? I’ve linked this blog to my webpage and I will tell pupils that they are welcome to comment on our use of ICT in their education.
My next step – get on with this del.icio.us thing.
