Teacher’s guide to the New Technologies Gateway

When used to best effect, new technologies can enhance student engagement and independence. They allow students to take greater control of their own learning and give them access to a wide range of resources at the touch of a button.  Creative ICT also allows teachers and students to modify the content of courses to better meet individual students’ needs in ways that paper-based resources do not allow. New technologies mean that teaching and learning are not limited to the school environments and that increasingly learners will be able to work from home at times that best suit them. Increasingly, ICT is a tool of collaboration. The potential for students to work collaboratively beyond their own school community through the use of online communities has great potential.

New Technologies at the CLC

This personalised learning gateway works best when it is combined with others – such as developing curriculum strands, learning to learn and assessment for learning. We have a range of new technologies available for students that include the latest Apple iMacs and software, animation and games design tools, Wacom drawing tablets, Sony HD video and Canon DSLR cameras. Our resources include Apple Macbook Pro laptops, O2 PDAs, DigitalBlue cameras and assorted primary provision hardware for short term loan.

The main resources we are using and developing at the CLC include

• Meet individual students’ learning styles with Qwizdom and Flash interactive quizzes as part of projects
• Engage and motivate students learning with curriculum specific learning projects for OCR Nationals and BTECs
• Challenge and extend subject knowledge by developing interactive mind maps and e-portfolio tasks
• Using multimedia technologies to aid independent learning by developing subject topics in the TV Studio for audiovisual learning and utilising web methods
• Creating online systems of knowledge that link to topics –wikis, podcasts and (web)blogging
• Vocationally relevant roles and responsibilities in media production within the TV Studio and as part of outside broadcast recording/outreach
• Specially designed flexible distributed learning space; a ‘classroom of the future’ enabling 4 or 5 separate group activities as defined by physical areas (see diagram).

Download our information for Primary School Projects in the TV Studio

Download our information on Secondary Projects in the TV Studio

Auditorium & iMac bays for Personalisation

TV Studio & Personalised learning spaces

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