Heather+Goggins

My name is Heather and I'm currently teaching Year 2 in Singapore. I really enjoyed today, although it was a little bit document heavy. I enjoyed collaborating with other people and learning about how they integrate technology into their inquiry. One thing that I am wrestling with is that I feel that everyone is vehement not to teach ICT skills as standalone, and I do agree with this wholeheartedly. I'm not sure if I've seen anyone doing that anymore. To me that seems quite antiquated. I do feel that it is important to directly teach skills but to integrate this with your inquiry, and I feel that teachers need to be reminded of this. I didn't exactly have any a ha moments today but I am hoping for some tomorrow!

Another thing I am noticing is the recurring theme that educators are commenting on is how you need to continually train staff to implement these things throughout the PYP - In my previous school we used the EPICT licence which was like a "driver's licence" for teachers. http://epict.com/ Teachers had to do online modules teaching them different skills, then hand in examples of how they used these skills. This was quite helpful to teach skills to teachers - Why not have something similar in the IB? Some kind of general ICT skills for teachers course would be helpful.

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