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Year 5 Literacy with ICT in Education Course

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You will learn how to make sound instructional decisions with ease when planning to enhance literacy learning through the use of technology in the English Learning Area by applying evidence based teaching strategies and utlising key resources that will continue to support your current practices, knowledge and Year 5 curriculum.

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Year 4 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

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Year 3 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

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You will learn how to make sound instructional decisions with ease when planning to enhance literacy learning through the use of technology in the English Learning Area by applying evidence based teaching strategies and utlising key resources that will continue to support your current practices, knowledge and Year 3 curriculum.

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Year 2 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

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You will learn how to make sound instructional decisions with ease when planning to enhance literacy learning through the use of technology in the English Learning Area by applying evidence based teaching strategies and utlising key resources that will continue to support your current practices, knowledge and Year 2 curriculum.

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Year 1 Literacy with ICT Instructional Course

Price: $360

You will learn how to enhance literacy in your curriculum with ICT by implementing sound literacy-ICT teaching strategies boosted by teacher competence, clear goals and the development of purposeful and meaningful Literacy-ICT activities. In addition, you will gain the expertise you need in order to develop 21st century skills in your classroom practices as you collaborate and reflect on your learning experiences.

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How to enhance Literacy with ICT today?

ICT has the potential to support effective literacy learning throughout the curriculum. The most important contributions it makes to literacy learning is that of helping teachers provide students with resources that allow them to focus on the specific learning objectives for a lesson.

Despite this, research has suggested that the extent to which ICT is used effectively in literacy lessons depends on a large extent on the teacher's own capabilities in ICT. Studies have found that where teacher's ICT skills were lacking, there was sometimes only a haphazard development of ICT skills. The most effective lessons which supported the development of literacy through the use of ICT made effective use of the provisionality inherent in ICT.

According to Kennewell et al. (2000), this study also showed that those teachers whose ICT skills were more advanced, were willing to explore teaching approaches that integrate their use of ICT in the spirit of structured literacy teaching.

TPACK Needs of English/Literacy Teachers Today

Using technology effectively for literacy instruction requires you to understand the complex relationships between content, pedagogy and technology or TPACK.

With the arrival of the ‘new literacies’ such as digital literacy and information literacy, it will be important that you are up-to-date about knowing how and when to use ICTs that help guide the development of reading and writing skills in all current digital formats. To implement your TPACK planning, consider how ICT tools enhances and help accomplish the goals and objectives of writing. For example, if you were teaching a lesson about writing stories you could consider having the students use a digital medium, such as a video, audio or presentation software, to tell their stories. Here is what you need to challenge yourself to do:

Content Knowledge

Must now think in terms of graphic and visual literacy as well as reading and writing literacy: Students today and the future will need to be proficient in using ICTs that allow them to read and search content in documents. They also need to know how to interpret and produce communication in video and images in addition to text form;
Ensure that you are familiar with these new skills.

Pedagogical Knowledge

Acquire new pedagogical knowledge and skills in addition to being able to create new strategies to meet the special needs of an increasingly diverse population.

Technological Knowledge

Become proficient in the new ICT tools and resources that both help define literacy in the 21st century.
Make possible strategies to teach these new literacies.

Understanding TPACK and how it relates to primary literacy education requires critical and thoughtful examination of all components and their interaction with each other (Schmidt & Gurbo in Taylor & Francis, 2008).

Our professional development experience provides you with the opportunity to observe, participate and reflect upon what you will teach, how you will teach it, and how technology might be used to enhance and expand primary literacy learning in your classroom today.

Why Enrol in our literacy courses for teachers?

You will will learn how to enhance the development of literacy in the classroom by implementing sound literacy-ICT teaching strategies based on on efficient assessment methods and supporting the integration of ICT tools made by informed decisions and choice.

By enrolling in this course, you will be able to:

Boost your TPACK skills in literacy teaching;
Assess the use of ICT in literacy lessons;
Employ sound ICT teaching strategies;
Provide an inclusive literacy-ICT learning environment;
Develop meaning literacy-ICT activities;
Implement strategies that will ensure that everyone learns from the English/literacy curriculum;
Improve your teaching and learning with ICT and;
Enhance the learning of literacy with ICT throughout the curriculum.

Completing this course will contribute to 8 hours of PD towards addressing 2.5.2, 2.6.2 and 3.42 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

This online course comes with FREE P-6 or K-6 Literacy-ICT Activities and lesson plan templates!!

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Take this opportunity to learn how to think like the experts in making instructional decisions, structuring Literacy-ICT activities and employing sound Literacy-ICT pedagogical strategies.

ICT literacy resources

Resources for Primary Teachers

If you are after teacher quality ICT literacy resources, we have a good range for you to choose from. Each builds on your technological pedagogical content knowledge that will help you work more efficiently and effectively with technology in the classroom.

The ICT pedagogy that you will gain the expertise in is derived from the most ICT capable schools today meaning that they are all research based strategies that you know will work given the right attention and commitment.

Of our most popular are our Literacy with ICT teaching resources that has strategies, activities and lesson plan templates. This is to ensure that you embed effective literacy teaching with technology aligned with the Australian Curriculum.

Here is a free preview of our Year 5 Literacy with ICT resource:

ICT literacy resources

Teaching literacy with ICT is an essential part of the Australian English Learning Area. The ICT pedagogy that you will learn will enable you to not only enhance literacy with ICT but also will enable you to meet the national requirements in relation to General Capability teaching and assessment.

Our literacy with ICT resources is just part of the range of our ICT literacy resources. By purchasing other ebooks, you not only learn effective ICT pedagogy but gain the expertise you need to harness technology in meaningful contexts.

Together with this, you gain an insight into many of our nationally accredited online workshops where you can get many of them for free.

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Resources for ICT Literacy

As primary teachers, we continue to equip our students for a world and a society that is dominated by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). You are, therefore, most likely already aware of the need to integrate ICT into teaching and learning. The role of ICT in the primary classroom is a complex but potentially powerful tool.

However, if you are to develop an ICT integrated approach then the ICT activities for students that you will embed within the curriculum key learning areas must be supported by your understanding of the ICT concepts.

It is also significant that you focus on setting clear objectives for each classroom ICT activity for students. For example, you need to plan to develop each students’ ICT capability prior to using ICT in subject learning so that students can focus on specific subject learning.

This should be your ultimate aim as a teacher to ensure that ICT use in meaningful and purposeful ICT activities for primary school students.

ICT literacy resources

Any ICT activity has context and it would be hard to introduce spreadsheets, for example, without involving a number activity. That is why that when you teach literacy with ICT that you understand this principle. We all know by now that ICT can enhance student literacy learning so why not make these primary school activities with the opportunity to develop student ICT capability alongside literacy learning.

It seems the best way to achieve it.

Begin first by understanding the meaning of ICT capability. It is not about just teaching ICT techniques, yet this has been the common misconception and norm among many of us. Yes, it does involve ICT techniques but ICT capability is more than this. It is to do with focusing on the concepts behind the ICT techniques and seeking to develop all the components of it such as the routines, processes, higher order thinking skills. Conceptual understanding is important if you are to facilitate the development of an ICT capable classroom.

You will learn more about this in the following ICT lessons for primary students.

What makes these literacy with ICT teaching activities difference is that they will enable you to foster learning strategies that emphasise higher order thinking skills.

ICT LITERACY resources for FOUNDATION

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As you can see, these are Australian Curriculum activities yet the strategies for literacy with ICT can not only be employed in other key learning areas, but also in national curriculums wherever you may teach.

ICT LITERACY resources for YEAR 1