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Your last best opportunity
- Description:
- Over the last ten years nothing has had a greater influence on teaching and learning in our schools than ICT. From being the province of a few techies in most schools it has become with every change in the National Curriculum an increasingly importan Folder: InteraCTive
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- 01/11/2006
Reviews
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- The latest in educational software. Folder: InteraCTive
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- 01/11/2006
Another small step
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- The trouble with new technology of any kind is that there is inevitably a confusing period when it appears in many different guises at once and none of them are compatible. For example, remember when you could buy video cassettes either as VCS or Betamax? Or, before that, the battle for supremacy for the audio tape market between the cassette and the eight–track cartridge? Nowhere has this been more pronounced than in the personal computer market. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
News
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- Our regular round–up of news from the world of educational ICT Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Microsoft – With Education In Mind
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- Brian Asbury talks to Stephen Uden of Microsoft UK about how the IT giant is working to improve the use of technology in education and its plans both for now and the future. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Seeking Success In Searching
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- Carrying out searches on the Internet may sound straightforward, but if it is to be done efficiently, it is important that pupils develop appropriate strategies for searching, as Terry Freedman explains. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Education's Converging Opportunity
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- Is the task of bringing 21st Century technology into our schools hampered by the limitations of 20th and even 19th Century buildings? Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
The Challenge Of High–Tech Bullying
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- In the second of a series of behaviour management columns, Bill Jenkins of Securus Software discuses the dangers of cyber–bullying and the difficulties that schools face in dealing with it. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
The Campaign For Communication
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- The Communication Aids Project to enable children with communication difficulties to get the equipment they need has recently ended. Keith Sullivan looks the consequences of this and the campaign to not only reinstate the funding but to expand its scope. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Turning Pages Of A Book
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- Jersey might be a small island, but its education authorities do not think small when it comes to ICT in their schools. Nigel Drake looks some of their success stories. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Spreading The Costs
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- Barry Lake looks at some of the problems that the ongoing costs of maintaining the ICT infrastructure present to schools, and examines whether schemes to lease equipment, supported by parental contributions, could help reduce the burden. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Strategic Leadership Supplement
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- The first of six special sections sponsored by Capita Education Services aimed at helping schools to use ICT to achieve their long–term improvement goals. This issue: Parental involvement. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
The Best Of Bard
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- This issue’s special feature focuses on how Shakespeare is being given a new lease of life in today’s schools thanks to ICT. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Surfing For Shakespeare
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- Jan Green explores some of the many free web–based resources designed to supplement and enhance teaching and learning about Shakespeare, his time and his works. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Soft Options For Primary Maths
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- Nick Austin of TEEM sifts through a few of the many software resources available for teaching mathematics in the primary school. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Digging Down With ICT
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- Vivi Lachs discusses how Highwire City Learning Centre has transformed the teaching of geography through the use of ICT and multimedia. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Thanks For Listening
- Description:
- Adrian Porter discusses the educational possibilities of podcasting and offers some hints and tips on how to go about creating podcasts with your students. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Lifting Language Learning
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- Steve Dracup of the Promethean Technologies group discusses how embedding ICT strategy in modern foreign language (MFL) teaching can help inject the fun back into learning. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
A Touching Subject
- Description:
- If your school is looking to purchase touch screen monitors, this issue’s Buyer’s Guide may be of some help in sifting through the many options on the market. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
Reviews
- Description:
- The latest in educational software reviewed. Folder: Interactive Issue 64
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- 01/01/1970
What in @ Name?
- Description:
- The other day, someone asked me a curious question, which I’d never thought about before. What is a ‘@’ symbol called? Folder: Interactive Issue 64
- Submitted On:
- 01/01/1970
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