Supporting Individual Students

The availability of desktop computers for ICT and Computer Science means that we are able to provide students with additional technologies that are not available in other classrooms.  For example, we are able to display presentations directly onto students’ screens meaning that the students do not need to look at the projector screen making it easier for them to make notes. We can also display the progress made by some students in the class to help others understand the task in hand and perhaps gain some ideas.

Facilities on the monitor enable students to zoom in or change the background colour to help make text more visible.  They can use headphones to cut out background noise and use text to voice facilities.  As there is a printer in each of the computer rooms, presentations can be printed and glued into notebooks and text can be enlarged on worksheets.

We can use online tasks and exercises to build confidence and consolidate knowledge through sites such as 101 computing, teach-ict.com and IsaacComputerScience.org. It is possible to provide additional challenge and variety by, for example, teaching coding through online sites such as turinglab.co.uk and encouraging students to make additional notes through independent reading and note taking from reliable websites.