Using ICT internationally
Using ICT to project manage builds important skills in pupils and teachers, and
brings the schools thousands of miles away into the classroom, but it is also a
brilliant way to bring the curriculum into ICT. A series of online conferences
or forums, or a simple email link is an ideal way to build up to a school trip
or exchange visit, or to support a topic elsewhere in the curriculum.
- Use your online provision to chat and dialogue — even use webcams and podcasting.
- Set up email links with Chinese primaries using a translation tool and trying out some simple Mandarin characters — free accounts available.
- Add the Global Dimension to maths and science by comparing data worldwide and confronting global issues such as climate change.
- Share viewpoints on current world events, on aspects of history and culture, on democracy, trade and conflict.
The Global Gateway has a special ICT Toolkit to help you decide between the provision available for projects and online collaboration with international partner schools. Facilitators and mentors are available to support online international collaboration in a number of areas, and involvement with pilot projects is often offered.
If you would like to see what a project looks like on the simplest platform available to schools (free and funded by the DCSF) please look at the ongoing projects on eLanguages.
Published: 02 November 2007
