1. Sally Forthoffer & Mélissa Sfredda Erasmus Students
ICT in the classroom
Sally Forthoffer & Mélissa Sfredda
Erasmus Students

2. Let’s define ICT
ICT is the abbrevation for « information & communication technologies »
What it means to us: explain the words in the word cloud
ICT is related to Creativity, Community, Collaboration, Challenge, Confidence and Craft

3. Why use ICT in schools? It can improve the quality of teaching
It is a motivation for children
It can be used in many different ways (variation)
Diversity
Go with the technological development
ICT is an important part of our society today and the children are confronted to it everyday.
Motivation because of something new, they are set into a challenge
Many different ways: to create movies, to modify a picture, to do researches, ...

4. How use ICT at school? The teacher: Interactive whiteboard
Learning network
Communication via with parents/colleagues
The children:
Different programs
Learning network
Presentations
Researches
Exercises for any subjects online

5. Comparison UK
Belgium

6. One example of how to use ICT in your class
Create a movie with Windows movie maker
Why did we chose this program?
Easy program
Interactive
Visual support

7. How does it work? Explanation of how to use Movie Maker
E:\WINCHESTER\How to use Movie Maker.docx

8. Our movie Objective 1: Learning a song in an interactive way,
with a visual support
and with the lyrics
Objective 2
Let the children create a movie by using movie maker

9. Conclusion ICT is easy to use if you feel confident with it
No one should be afraid of using the modern technologies in class
What teachers use can be done by children as well
Every child should have the possibility to use ICT