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The idea for this blog has come from meeting with Anthony Evans and Nic Hughes early in October of this year, both of whom use blogs to communicate ideas they have had or collected in relation to ICT within education.
So I shall attempt to do something similar here, which will hopefully help others, especially when working with ICT with children with SEN.
Here at Hatton we were, as at our last Ofsted inspection (in July 06), behind in our use of ICT. Ofsted recognised this and that we were, ourselves, aware of the issues. The report stated that the school must "Ensure that there is better use of ICT to support pupils' learning, progress and achievement throughout the curriculum."
So we spent some money!
Now we have a modestly sized, but well equipped ICT Suite. It contains 6 PCs, all with touchscreens that fold away into the desks so that we need only have the machines that we wish to use up and out, the rest are out of sight and of no distraction to the pupils. We also have a colour printer and seperate scanner in the suite and, of course, one SmartBoard interactive whiteboard with built in projector.
The suite was mostly built over the summer holidays 2007 and equipment was installed within the first few weeks of September.
The pupils were introduced to the suite over the first half term and all pupils were given an opportunity to try out the room. Tasks were set at a comfortable level for each pupil and changed on the fly to suit each pupil, because the goal here was to experience the room, which for some of our pupils can be quite a challenge in itself. However, all but one of the pupils happily entered the new room, which can be dauntingly bright from the now very dim seeming corridor. I am pleased to say, though, that that one pupil did, on his second attempt, enter and thoroughly enjoy the room!
So now that everyone has tried out the room and is reasonably comfortable with the equipment next half term we will be trying out some projects, starting with control. I'll let you know how we get on!
The idea for this blog has come from meeting with Anthony Evans and Nic Hughes early in October of this year, both of whom use blogs to communicate ideas they have had or collected in relation to ICT within education.
So I shall attempt to do something similar here, which will hopefully help others, especially when working with ICT with children with SEN.
Here at Hatton we were, as at our last Ofsted inspection (in July 06), behind in our use of ICT. Ofsted recognised this and that we were, ourselves, aware of the issues. The report stated that the school must "Ensure that there is better use of ICT to support pupils' learning, progress and achievement throughout the curriculum."
So we spent some money!
Now we have a modestly sized, but well equipped ICT Suite. It contains 6 PCs, all with touchscreens that fold away into the desks so that we need only have the machines that we wish to use up and out, the rest are out of sight and of no distraction to the pupils. We also have a colour printer and seperate scanner in the suite and, of course, one SmartBoard interactive whiteboard with built in projector.The suite was mostly built over the summer holidays 2007 and equipment was installed within the first few weeks of September.
The pupils were introduced to the suite over the first half term and all pupils were given an opportunity to try out the room. Tasks were set at a comfortable level for each pupil and changed on the fly to suit each pupil, because the goal here was to experience the room, which for some of our pupils can be quite a challenge in itself. However, all but one of the pupils happily entered the new room, which can be dauntingly bright from the now very dim seeming corridor. I am pleased to say, though, that that one pupil did, on his second attempt, enter and thoroughly enjoy the room!
So now that everyone has tried out the room and is reasonably comfortable with the equipment next half term we will be trying out some projects, starting with control. I'll let you know how we get on!
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