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What is effective ICT?

This section of the website provides some introductory material that helps you decided what 'effective ICT' actually stands for. ICT stands for 'Information Communication Technology'. ICT is a marketing person's dream full of buzzwords and terminology to confuse and bamboozle!

To be able to implement effective ICT, it is vital that you really understand what it means to you.

'Effective' is obviously a subjective term, but if we are forced to quantify it, I believe it would be fair to say that effective ICT means:

Making use of ICT to

Engage and enthuse learners

Raise achievement

Enable better understanding

Foster improved communication

Have a positive impact on workload

Effective use of ICT in your teaching thus means using computers to make your teaching more effective - both for those you are teaching and for yourself.

Yet what does this mean in practice?

Move onto the next page for an exercise to help you decide!

This exercise provides a scenario involving the use of ICT. You have have to give it a score from 0 - 10, according to how effective you think the use of ICT is.

Simple as that - a task to get you thinking about the potential effective uses of ICT in the classroom.

What do you think is effective ICT?

Effective ICT - "What is effective ICT?" - Flashpaper document

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