Im sure plenty of you know that there are plenty of websites out there to help us when we are on teaching practice. We havce primary resources http://www.primaryresources.co.uk , sparkelbox http://www.sparklebox.co.uk , but, have you heard of http://www.kids.direct.gov.uk . It is an amazing website for children to use with lots of things they can do, for example, do their taxes!!!
Chech out this website, i guarantee you will want to play on it! I am definitely going to use this resource for my next teaching practice!!!
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Maths Seminar
Our dissertation is in two parts, a written assignment and a seminar. I have organised my own placement in a blind school in Exeter. I thought it would be amazing on how blind children learn mathematics.
The West of England school has lots and lots of ICT resources to help children learn mathematics. For instance, when teaching weight they have talking scales. They also have things like a talking calculator, talking computer keyboards...amazing! Its nice to see that ICT is important to blind chidlren as well as other children.
ICT is growing vastly, I am glad I have been able to see times change. When I was in primary school we had no ICT suite, we were lucky to get one per class. There were no mobile phones and certainly no internet so it is amazing to see children being able to google things they want to find out about, when they want with no help. At that age I was probably still learning how to write with a pencil!!!
The West of England school has lots and lots of ICT resources to help children learn mathematics. For instance, when teaching weight they have talking scales. They also have things like a talking calculator, talking computer keyboards...amazing! Its nice to see that ICT is important to blind chidlren as well as other children.
ICT is growing vastly, I am glad I have been able to see times change. When I was in primary school we had no ICT suite, we were lucky to get one per class. There were no mobile phones and certainly no internet so it is amazing to see children being able to google things they want to find out about, when they want with no help. At that age I was probably still learning how to write with a pencil!!!
Sunday 15 March 2009
Flowol
Hmm...so first of all I thought, 'ye...i can do this!' but when it came to actually doing it....well that was another story!
I picked the traffic lights...I heard that it was the easiest, in my case...not so much! I found it really confusing and I started to think why would we ever do this with children?! They'll find it so confusing. Then I stopped and had another think, maybe thats what older people said when we were young when the internet came out, or mobile phones came out...it was in our generation that we found it so much easier than they did. So looking back now, maybe if I play around with it a bit more, maybe I may get the hang of it, just like our primary school children will.
I picked the traffic lights...I heard that it was the easiest, in my case...not so much! I found it really confusing and I started to think why would we ever do this with children?! They'll find it so confusing. Then I stopped and had another think, maybe thats what older people said when we were young when the internet came out, or mobile phones came out...it was in our generation that we found it so much easier than they did. So looking back now, maybe if I play around with it a bit more, maybe I may get the hang of it, just like our primary school children will.
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