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Edition Jane Evershed Digital Instant Download
Author(s): Jane Evershed, Jayne Roper
ISBN(s): 9780335237982, 033523948X
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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Teaching 14+
Series editor: Andy Armitage
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Teaching Information
Technology 14+
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Contents
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vi CONTENTS
Glossary 108
References 114
Index 117
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List of figures
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List of tables
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For historical reasons perhaps, subject pedagogy for Post 16 teachers has not been
considered a professional development priority. The possession of appropriate aca-
demic or vocational qualifications and experience have traditionally been considered
sufficient for those teaching older students assumed themselves to possess the motiv-
ation and skills for effective learning. However, the increasing numbers of 14–16 year
olds taking part of their programmes in FE colleges, the rise in the participation rate
of 16–19 year olds and the increasing number of 18–30 year olds having experience of
higher education, have created a large and diverse population in all sector institutions
presenting a challenge to those teaching Post 14 students. Both the 2003 and 2006
Ofsted surveys of Post 16 teacher training and the 2007 reforms of initial teacher
training and continuing professional development, have drawn attention to the urgent
need for both new and existing teachers to receive training to teach their subject or
curriculum specialism and to receive support from subject coaches or mentors in the
workplace. Most of the programmes preparing the 40,000 trainees annually to teach
in the lifelong learning sector are generic in nature, rather than subject specific.
Partly because of the Institute for Learning’s requirements regarding both CPD
and professional formation, there is considerable growth in in-service continuing
professional development and, given the attention given by both Ofsted and DCSF to
subject pedagogy as described above, it is likely that there will be a sharp CPD focus
for many colleges on subject teaching, particularly since much of the burden of sub-
ject based training will fall on the shoulders of FE college based mentors. The increase
in vocational education in schools, particularly with the introduction of diplomas, will
see a growing need for secondary PGCE students and existing 14–18 secondary
teachers to enhance their subject pedagogy for 14+ students. One of the key recom-
mendations of a recent report on vocational teacher training1 is that “Vocational and
applied pedagogies should become a research priority and be embedded within
school, further education (FE) and higher education (HE) initial teacher training
(ITT) and continuing professional development (CPD).”
1
The Skills Commission (2010) An Inquiry into Teacher training in Vocational Education London:
The Skills Commission P.14
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Each series title is therefore aimed to act as support for teachers, whether on a
formal initial or CPD programme or simply as a guide for those teaching the subject
on a daily basis in one of a variety of possible contexts: secondary, FE, Adult and
Community Education, work-based training. Chapters in each title follow a similar
format. Chapter 1 deals with the nature of subject(s) in the curriculum area, consider-
ing any contesting conceptions of what the subject should be about, as well as current
issues connected with teaching it. There is a focus on subject updating, identifying
recent key developments in subjects as well as the means for students to be able to
update themselves. Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the major programmes in
the subject area focussing mainly on those in the National Qualifications Framework
such as GCSE, AS, Key Skills, NVQ, Diplomas, although reference is made to the
Framework for Higher Education Qualifications. There is a consideration of the cen-
tral features of each programme such as aims and objectives, unitisation or modular-
ity, content. The chapter also guides readers in the task of turning syllabus into
learning via schemes of work. The third chapter considers key skills and functional
skills, looking at differing models of skills development and how such skills might be
taught through the subject. Chapter 4 looks at the teaching and learning strategies
most often used in the curriculum area. There are clearly certain learning and teach-
ing strategies that are used universally across post 14 programmes – lectures, discus-
sion, presentations are the most obvious. Even these, however, will need to be treated
in the context of their use in the subject area. Presentations which model those in
advertising or marketing might be effective learning strategies in an AS Media Studies
or Applied Business GCSE, whereas in Key Skills Communications they might have
the purpose of developing oracy skills and as part of an Access course of developing
study skills. Chapter 5 considers resources as used in the context of the curriculum
area. When audio-visual resources are being considered, for example, students might
be presented with exemplar handouts and PowerPoint presentations with subject-
related content. ICT resources should be considered in terms of their strengths in
relation to the subject. Are there good commercial software packages, for example?
How can they best be used for teaching? What are the key web sites relating to the
subject area? How might searching best be carried out? There is a consideration of the
range of published resources available in the subject area, with examples of how
material is presented and how use of it is structured. Chapter 6 offers guidance on the
role of the teacher as assessor in the programmes identified in Chapter 2, with a
particular emphasis on the range of assessment strategies used as part of these
programmes.
Each title features a range of pedagogical features which might be useful alone,
in pairs or in groups. Readers are invited for example to reflect, discuss, respond to
a range of visual stimuli, give short answer responses to questions, consider case
studies, complete short tasks.
Jane Evershed and Jayne Roper describe how information technology has per-
meated our everyday lives since the 1980s and note key features of this growth such
as the gender imbalance in usage and the existence of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital
immigrants’. The central driver of this growth is the explosion in use of the internet
with some 1668.8 million users worldwide and a 75% penetration in developed
countries such as the UK, USA and Germany. Traditionally, IT teaching and training
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has been regarded as relatively narrowly instructional, offering a ‘how to’ guide. How-
ever, the authors demonstrate the wide range of pedagogical methods available
to the IT teacher, as well as to teachers embedding IT-based technologies in their
teaching of other subjects (Information Learning Technology or ILT). In addition, a
very broad range of differing types of IT qualifications exists. Not that the authors
regard the end product or qualification as the most important aspect of learning in IT
but defend the subject’s intrinsic worth.
Andy Armitage
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank everyone who has supported us in creating this book and our
family, friends and colleagues from whom we continue to learn. Special thanks to
Andy, Billie, Colin, Lou, Olivia, Paul and Peter for their help and advice.
We dedicate this book to David and Jeff, without whose support the research for
this book would still be sitting on the kitchen table.
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Current issues in information technology
• What IT means today in the UK and the importance of the IT industry and its associ-
ated infrastructure.
• Some of the impacts that IT has on culture and society in terms of the digital divide,
security issues and access to technology.
• How internet technologies offer the potential for global and local economic inter-
action and social inclusion.
• Recent government policy initiatives, including the report on Digital Britain.
• Copyright ethics of internet and other sources accessed through IT media.
Introduction
What is information technology (IT) and what is its role in society? Is it important
and, if so, why?
These are very complex questions to which we suggest no one has the definitive
answers. However, it is essential for teachers of IT disciplines to recognize that under-
standing such questions is vital for teaching the subject. It is very easy to be drawn
into ‘teaching to the exam’ and to launch into creating product-based assessments
that many of the IT qualifications advocate. How often, ourselves included, have
teachers taken the syllabus, divided it up into schemes of work and found that the
criteria have been so wide in scope and the timetable in which to deliver it has been so
tight that we have launched into new subjects without fully explaining or allowing
our students – of whatever age – to first explore the concepts involved. We argue
throughout this book that it is this part of the teaching and learning process that
creates the initial sparks of interest and that, by chaining ourselves to producing end
products we may be successful in helping students to gain specific qualifications,
but that for interest to continue we also need to harness those initial sparks and keep
them alight.
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IT in everyday life
The term IT has shifted and developed rapidly since the 1980s, coinciding with a time
of technological miniaturization of the chip from mainframe computers to the now
ubiquitous personal computer (PC) and laptop equipment. During the past two
decades or so, electronic devices have become smaller and converged functionally into
increasingly powerful and more portable devices, and have integrated into society
often so seamlessly (despite the occasional grumble about speed!) that we do not even
realize we are using IT; we adjust our central heating, withdraw money from a cash
machine and buy groceries from a supermarket without thinking of the IT industry
that services and supports such activities.
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Reflection 1.1
Make a list of the IT you have used today as you went about your normal day. For
example, you may have listened to digital radio or put petrol in your car. Then reflect
on which of these seemingly local interactions may have more global impacts.
One example you may have investigated is ordering a book online from a website,
which could be located anywhere in the world. Web pages can be saved on globally
distributed servers and could mean you placing your order from an overseas com-
pany. You are likely to receive an e-mail notification that your order has been placed;
again Internet Service Providers (ISP) use multiple communication links including
satellite to route your order and e-mail communication. In all probability, your book
will be dispatched and tracked by electronic means, electronic stock control will be
used, and it is likely that the publisher will be notified and royalties calculated auto-
matically via the internet. The website through which you ordered the book will
update the profile it holds of you so it can recommend additional titles based on your
previous purchases. The payment will be made electronically using a credit or debit
card. The fee will be deducted and the transaction made between your bank and the
international bank of the supplier, all online via the internet.
Behind the easy façade of such transactions there are legions of people employed
in the IT industry. There are specialists and generalists in multiple disciplines includ-
ing software programming, hardware configuration and design, network manage-
ment, business analysis, web design, database analysis and games testing. There are
product innovators, manufacturers and designers. There are marketing companies,
advertisers, journals and magazines all specializing in IT. There are IT security
companies, computer repair and support companies, IT peripheral suppliers and
manufacturers, and IT retailers. The list is endless. And IT is no longer just about
computers, it involves information and communications technologies (ICT) such as
mobile phones, Voice over internet Protocol (VoIP), Twitter, Facebook and e-mail
networks, information learning technologies (ILT) such as virtual learning environ-
ments (VLE) and interactive whiteboard systems, music and entertainment, games
and other highly specialized systems such as those designed for air traffic control and
the stock market, for example. Other huge industries rely in turn on IT, for example,
retailing, banking and the tracking of goods and services. IT is a vast web of
interconnections (and sometimes frustratingly non-interconnected systems) often
(thankfully) obscured and opaque to the end user. All of this is made global through
copper, fibre optic, wireless and satellite networks.
Though the jobs market looked pretty bleak during Q1.09, it is worth mentioning
that the number of ICT staff in work during the first quarter of the year was still
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4 per cent higher than the equivalent quarter of 2008 (compared with a 1 per cent
fall for the UK workforce as a whole).
(E-Skills UK 2009a)
A large insurance company with 1000 employees has very different IT needs from a
large doctor’s surgery, but there is also some overlap. The insurance company will have
a call centre for enquiries, and the receptionists at the surgery perform a very similar
function. The calls are likely to be logged into a database in both cases (though the
front end may well look very different) and both will rely on voice and telephony. From
Table 1.1, identify which IT personnel may be required by each business and whether
they are likely to be required on-site or whether they are more likely to be outsourced
from elsewhere.
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