ICT Update 74 English

ICT Update 74 English
Author:
Publisher: CTA
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed and on-line magazine (http://ictupdate.cta.int) and an accompanying e-mail newsletter published by CTA. This issue focuses on CTA international conference ICT4Ag.

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Department for Children, Schools and Families
Author: Great Britain: Department for Children, Schools and Families
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2007-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780101727921

Following the Machinery of Government changes in June 2007 three new departments were set up in place of the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Trade and Industry. This 2007 Autumn Performance Report identifies the targets applicable to the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCFS) and charts its progress against the Spending Review 2004 (SR04), Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets and introduces a new suite of Comprehensive Spending Review Public Service Agreements (CSR07). There is also a chapter on targets from the Spending Review 2002 PSA targets that are still outstanding.

Improving Classroom Learning with ICT

Improving Classroom Learning with ICT
Author: Rosamund Sutherland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-11-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1134043651

Takes a holistic approach to using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. It weaves together evidence of teachers’ and learners’ experiences of ICT outside school, how policy and management issues impact on learning, and what actually happens when ICT is fully integrated into teaching and learning.

A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School
Author: Steve Kennewell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1134142072

This practical and accessible workbook is designed to support student and newly qualified teachers as they develop their basic teaching skills. A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School draws on the best available research concerning student-teachers’ needs and approaches to learning. It focuses on the key pedagogical issues which arise during the school experience, including: managing the class and learning environment developing pupils’ understanding of concepts including challenging misconceptions different ways of explaining aspects of the subject which pupils find problematic. It provides a wealth of practical activities and materials, underpinned by relevant theory, which have been developed through the authors’ vast experience of working with student teachers. These activities provide opportunities to analyze learning and performance. The book has been designed to be written in directly, and so provide a useful record of progress. Case studies are also included, as are examples of existing good practice and a range of tried-and-tested strategies. The book has been written to complement Learning to Teach ICT in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, but can also be used equally successfully as a stand alone book. It has been designed to be used by student teachers, on their own or with others, or by school- or university-based tutors with their student teachers, to develop and reinforce their understanding of learning to teach IT.

Nursing Informatics 2020

Nursing Informatics 2020
Author: Peter J. Murray
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1586037722

Demonstrates that technology is only one part of the equation, and that many other factors must be borne in mind. This volume acknowledges the need to explore not only the visible and predictable future, but also the less likely scenarios that may suddenly be thrust to the forefront of our attentions.

Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture

Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture
Author: N. J. Enfield
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 0191581798

This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained by social values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with Dr Enfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work or original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.

EBOOK: Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language: Policy, Practice and Research

EBOOK: Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language: Policy, Practice and Research
Author: Lyn Tett
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006-06-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335228038

This book explores the social practice of literacy, numeracy and language and its implications for teaching and learning adult basic skills. Leading international experts argue that literacy, numeracy and language are more than just a set of skills or techniques, but are shaped by the social and cultural context within which they are taking place; the meanings they have for users; and the purposes they serve. This shifts the focus from a narrow, functional and externally imposed definition of literacy, numeracy and language learning, to more open and numerous definitions that focus on what people do with their knowledge, understanding and skills in a range of contexts. Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language shows how the social practice approach to learning and teaching can be used to develop more inclusive views of adult literacy, numeracy and language. Bringing together the views of researchers, policy makers and practitioners, it helps readers to develop an understanding of contemporary policy developments and encourages them to examine their own practice as adult basic education teachers, in order to respond more effectively to the needs of their students. This book is a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and students on courses in adult and continuing education (particularly basic skills), postgraduate students, and researchers in the field of post-compulsory education.

Early British Computers

Early British Computers
Author: Simon Hugh Lavington
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1980
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780719008108