Curriculum requirements in Information Technology: National Curriculum, GCSE, GNVQ, CLAIT, AS/A2 Level. ICT skills, information systems, e-commerce. Current developments in the application of IT in education e.g. video conferencing. Classroom management and organisation and the role of the teacher in teaching with IT. The implications of theories of learning for the use of IT in education.

Workshops will review curriculum content, examples of assessment and lesson planning and practical sessions will concentrate on the use of generic software and the management of hardware. You will be asked to analyse and compare different approaches to the assessment of IT capability You will also be asked to work with others in preparing and giving presentations.

A further 123 hours of independent learning will require you to apply the understanding you gain through your reading and the university sessions to your lesson planning and assessment strategies. You will have opportunities to discuss with your tutor specific issues concerning the nature and significance of various aspects of information technology in education.

A 2000 word assignment on the design and evaluation of assessment of IT capability. Assesses all learning outcomes.

University teaching sessions
Tutorials
Placement School/College meetings with Mentor
University library
Materials and Links on PGCE Blackboard, for example:

QCA and Awarding Bodies
www.edexcel.org.uk/home/
www.aqa.org.uk/
www.ocr.org.uk/website/docroot/index.jsp

Exemplar ICT Education Sites
www.ltscotland.org.uk/ictineducation/
www.terry-freedman.org.uk/index.php
www.becta.org.uk/
www.ictforeducation.co.uk/
www.educationic.org.uk/

Must be enrolled onto the PGCE Award.

The PGCE Programme does not allow opportunity to combine this module with any module not specified in the award structure.

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LEASK, M. AND PACHLER, N. (1999) (Eds.) Learning to teach using ICT in the secondary School, London: Routledge

MOOI, T. AND SMEETS, E. (2001) Modelling and supporting ICT implementation in secondary schools Computers & Education 36:3 pp265 - 281

REYNOLDS, D. TREHARNE, D. AND TRIPP, H. (2003) ICT?the hopes and the reality British Journal of Educational Technology 34:2 pp151-167

RUSSELL, T. Teaching and Using ICT in Secondary Schools (2001) London, David Fulton

SOMEKH, B. AND DAVIS, N. (1997) (Eds.) Using Information technology effectively in teaching and learning, London, Routledge

WATSON, D. (2001) Pedagogy before Technology: Re-thinking the Relationship between ICT and Teaching, Education and Information Technologies 6: 4 pp251 - 266

WILLIAMS D. COLES L. WILSON K. RICHARDSON A. AND TUSON J. (2000) Teachers and ICT: current use and future needs British Journal of Educational Technology, 31: 4 pp307-320