New Tools for Learning: Accelerated Learning Meets ICT [Paperback]

The use of ICT in all its forms will have a dramatic and catalytic role to play in the learning revolution - especially as we learn more about the subtle interplay between hearing, seeing and doing in the learning process.--,

A blueprint for ICT as it becomes a transformational tool for learning What’s happening now in the area of ICT and learning? How can you make the most of the new tools at your disposal? How can you match the tools to the learning needs? How do you bring everyone on board for change? Our knowledge of the brain and how we learn is developing – and ICT offers the ideal tools to support many of the key principles behind the theory. Step by step, author and Guardian columnist John Davitt explains how you can make the most of this opportunity. This book outlines 5 practical, whole-school ICT projects that will inspire staff and pupils alike. With tips and ideas for masses more exciting ICT projects that apply across the curriculum.

The use of ICT in all its forms will have a dramatic and catalytic role to play in the learning revolution – especially as we learn more about subtle interplay between hearing, seeing and doing in the learning process.

In the next five years we are likely to discover with increasing certainty how learning happens and how we can best support learners of all abilities and needs. ICT in all its forms will have a dramatic and catalytic role to play in this learning evolution – especially as we learn more about the subtle interplay between hearing, seeing and doing. Yet at the moment we risk confusing the catalyst with the effect – if our gaze stays fixed on the technology, the dramatic learning opportunities it might encourage could pass us by.

As if by magic, just as our knowledge and understanding of accelerated learning theory is developing, we have new classroom tools to help us support many of its key principles. Carefully used, data projectors linked to computers can fill a classroom with wall with a still or moving image, and provide new opportunities for showing the big picture at the start of a lesson and for rolling a scrolling review of what has been learned at the end.

Step by step, author and Guardian columnist, John Davitt explains how you can make the most of this opportunity. This book outlines five practical, whole-school ICT projects that will inspire staff and pupils alike. Many ideas for the use of ICT across the curriculum are provided along with guidance on intranets, environment, turboteaching and zoning.

John is a writer and software developer. he also provides teacher training events and keynote speeches. He began WordRoutes, a multimedia development company with a focus on building delightful educational resources, in January 1991. He has been an English teacher, head of year, an adviser for teaching and learning styles and regional adviser with the DfES Flexible Learning Project for three years. As a freelance journalist he writes for the TES, the Guardian, The Times and The Observer, with a regular feature in the Education Guardian. John works widely with schools in the UK and Africa and is committed to levelling the playing field regarding access to new tools for learning (www newtools.org).