Middle Schooling: Using ICTS

(Prestridge, S & Finger, G 2017, ‘Using Information & Communications Technologies’ in DL Pendergast, K Main & NM Bahr (3rd Edition), Teaching Middle Year: Rethinking Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, pp. 170-187)
 
Digitally Annotated by Andrei Apostol
 
Theme Summary: 
This theme looked a range of Middle Schooling Pedagogies and there uses in provide a meaningful and relevant curriculum to our middle school learners.

• Cooperative and Collaborative Learning, which is underpinned in the social constructivist theories with evidence showing benefit socially, physiological and academically in this type of pedagogy.
• Teams and Teaching, learning communities of students with key teachers facilitating learning).
• Higher Order Thinking, enable the student to think critically and creatively in a variety of way and for the process of life-long learning.
• Information Communication Technologies, urging teachers to be computer and digitally literate as a way to keep their student engaged in a meaningful, connective curriculum

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