2.
Introduction
I work in a school ranging from nursery to year six. There are 3 computers in each classroom.
We also have an ICT suit with 20 computers, b-bots, headphones and many more pieces of ICT equipment.
The ICT suit is used by the whole school everyday.
In each classroom there is a laptop which connects to the interactive whiteboard. Recently
we've invested in 72 new Ipads, 22
are set up and used in year six for their life project, the rest are waiting to be set up along with
two apple TV's.
My position in the school changes throughout the day.
AM- lsa PM - I cover ppa for the foundation phase
.My intentions for this activity is that all the children
have a feeling of success and achievement.
3. Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson the children should have a
strong understanding of Problem solving across the
Curriculum. I hope the children will recognise the plot
Of the story and be able to discuss how we can solve the problem together
By hiding the magic beans. The children will then apply and deign their idea
In order for them to analyse each others work and compare it to their own.
Children would be able to summarise their thoughts and evaluate
each character.
Cornerstones.
Can see links between cause and effect.
Using and becoming familiar with common words and phrase for the world.
Experience a range of stimuli including : media and ICT.
Express.
Making links within the different elements
Describing what they have found out and offer explanations
4. Class dynamics
I'll be carrying out my lesson with a mixed year one/reception class. 18 year ones and 6 mature reception.
Their ages range from 4-6 years old
Its a positive classroom atmosphere, staff and children have a good repor making the children feel safe,
respect the classroom rules and have close friendship groups.
Their enthusiastic to become involved in new experiences and enjoy learning from each other.
Their mixed a very mixed ability class ranging from
Outcome 2 – outcome 4. National Curriculum/Foundation Phase documents reference.
5. Lesson/Activity
Intro
The children watch a short film around problem solving.
While watching encourage them to watch and listen
carefully as there will be questions to follow. When the video
has finished ask the children some open questions around what
they watched. Explain that I want them to to come up with
a plan to solve the problem I am going to show them.
When showing them the dilemma the computer will be
hijacked by a morphed character that has been made using
I-pad morph app. Children will be asked to go to collect a
treasure chest from the garden I then read the letter.
( see evidence)
6. Activity-
In mixed ability groups the children will be split into two
Groups, one group will draw a plan on where we can hide the
Magic beans and the second will use the construction to
Make a secure place to hide the beans.
Enjoyment is the key here to encourage future of
engagement of learning.
Bring the children back to the
carpet and share their results by putting the
Pictures of their designs on the whiteboard using the I-pad.
When turning my back and pretending that the I-pad has
broken show the Children the string augmentation
animation & the evil king on morph app. Get them to
explain what they saw, show another animation of
Princess Gwen, who will ask them to go on to doing task 2.
The children then design a wanted poster for the lost giant
And place them around the school.
Plenary-
Using the Atypo app on the I-pad the children think of words
For each of the characters.
9. Lnf skills
Literacy-
Talk about things they have made or done, explaining the process.
Include some detail and some relevant vocabulary to extend their ideas.
Show understanding of what they have heard by asking questions to find out more.
Contribute to conversations and respond to others.
Numeracy-
Make lists and tables based on information.
10. The Evaluation
During my lesson I felt as though my teaching was well
directed and the children enjoyed learning. I feel its more
effective and beneficial for children's learning if they're
enjoying the lesson being taught. This is also expressed by
D. Sherrat and M. petter (2002) who state that ' Children
learn best when they are enjoying themselves and teaching
too becomes more effective'.
During my lesson I had planned three activities.
The children sat patient at the start of lesson as
I experienced some technical difficulty with the
leads I needed. The children reacted extremely enthusiastic after
I played them the morph app of the princess,
they had no idea that I myself had put it on. They believed like intended that the princess has high
jacked the lesson and needed their help. The children learnt/met all the skills that I had planned for
and some pupils asked questions that I hadn't thought of, which enabled class
discussion which also gave many of them the opportunity
to further their knowledge of the mornings lesson.
They also had a great experience of working in groups as well as individually.
11. 'Grouping children together helps to promote more
effective learning
and results in co-operative activity that extends
what the individual could do alone'
I decided to use a I-pad to support the learning because
I felt like it was a challenge for myself as well as the
pupils as neither of us had experienced using them before.
I used the I-pad all the way through my
lesson for many different things. I used the morph app to
crate characters and make them life like, this made the
learners eager to expand their learning and knowledge
of the story 'Jack and the beanstalk'.
I also used a camera throughout my teaching by myself
taking pictures and letting the class photographer use the
camera and take photos he/she thought were necessary
I used the white board to show the children their work
and photos during and the end of the lesson.
I supported the learning in many ways, I made sure
I firstly grouped the children in mixed ability
so the learners could scaffold each other through the
learning process.
I also designed a poster 'IN IT TO WIN IT'
this helped the children understand what I expected
from them as learners throughout the lesson.
I walked around the room providing help if children had
requested it or I could see their work card turned to red.
12. 'ICT can have a positive impact of teaching and learning'.
Using the I-pad and white board in my lesson made a massive
influence to my teaching. If I hadn't had the use of the apps
to make my lesson more believable I wouldn’t of had the same
outcomes and enjoyment. During my use of the I-pad's
I learnt the positive effect of using technology to enhance
a lesson. I learnt that the I pad produced some fantastic
learning apps that can assist a child in learning whether
being a higher ability child or a lower ability.
During my experience of practising using the ipad I
took a maths lesson in a reception class there is a
little autistic boy who refuses to do maths so I downloaded
an appropriate game and managed to hit many of his skills and
outcomes he hadn't done all year.
I will carry on trying new types of technology in my
future teaching to enhance the children’s
learning and knowledge as well as my own. If I had to do the
Lesson again, I would make sure my AFL was more structured
for each activity rather than throughout the day. I learnt
this during my second activity when the children kept asking
me t into numeracy for
their LNF skills, while planning my lesson around literacy skills
I found it difficult putting in the numeracy skills. questions, I felt it was best I stopped all the children
and went through what I was expecting the giant to look like.
I enjoyed having the experince of teaching with an ipad and hopefuly will be allowed to enhance my knowledge
And use one in the futrue.
19. References
eveloping play and drama in children with autistic spectrum disorders. 2002 routledge.
eaching children to learn Robert Fisher
ox & abbot 2004 Cox &# Webb 2004
