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Joint Statement The ICT Integration Project is designed to help us as beginning teachers to utilize ICT in our lesson planning. There are a number of studies that have identified that teachers are using ICT daily in their own planning but are not embedding ICT in their classroom activities. So rather than teaching ICT as a stand-alone skill we will learn to embed ICT into all aspects of our teaching and across all learning areas. This project will also help us to work collaboratively step by step to plan, design and implement an entire learning resource over four lessons that we can use in the future as an actual teaching resource or at least a template to modify or extend. Currently the way technology is used in schools across Western Australia varies widely. Although to some extent this is dependent on access and available technologies more importantly it is the teacher’s personal approach to technology and pedagogy that makes the biggest difference in ICT integration. Our approach will be to focus on three types of ICT that we can integrate into our lessons as an integral part of the lesson’s learning activities – used as an authentic tool to enhance the learning taking place. We will start this process by brainstorming our ideas and developing those initial ideas into a visual Mind Map that will link Subject Learning Areas, Learning Activities, Assessment, ICT resources to the West Australian Curriculum Framework and the Australian Curriculum. We can utilize the Mind Map to breakdown the work between group members and therefore develop a Project Plan. The detailed Project Plan will allocate specific tasks to each group member and a timeline to ensure the each task is completed on time and all assignment dates are met. A major part of this project is to develop a webquest which will enable us to participate in the planning, development and publishing of the final learning resource on Wiki-spaces. All the information on the project will be also published on the “Teacher” page to help others identify the stages in producing a meaningful learning experience for students. For us this is learning by doing which will underpin our own approach to ICT integration during our teaching. Ensuring that ICT is not seen as “computer use” but the adaptation of all available technologies that will enhance student learning and support teachers at the chalkface. Evidence based learning statement As a group we are aiming to implement the evidence based learning practice into all of our lessons. To do this we have created activities for the students which will evidently show that these students have learnt and obtained information about Space. For instance we are getting the students to do a timeline about space exploration this means that the student has to research on this topic and create their own individual timeline. The timeline will be the evidence for us that the students have learnt the correct information for this particular lesson and have put that information in a chronological order. It will also give us evidence that the students know how to use imovie which they have done their timeline on. The students can also show evidence of using technology properly by researching for space exploration information while using ICT tools that can include utube, podcasts, a movie, using search engines and many more. We would also get the student to reference all of these ICT sources, so as a teacher we can see if the student got that information is from a reliable source. This lesson can also be used to teach the students where to access reliable information and how you can tell which sites are the best for obtaining information. This can then be shown to use through evidence by the reference page of their assignment Statement for our Three intended forms of ICT. For our ICT project presentation, we are presenting the subject of Space to a class of year 6’s. The three groups of ICT that we are going to use are a Powerpoint, an imovie or photostory and a podcast. Each of these areas of ICT will be assigned with the student’s assessment of their understanding and knowledge of the area we have learnt. The will all be using the internet to research the specific topic and majority of the lessons will be presented to the class using the interactive whiteboards. The first piece of ICT we will use in the sequence of lesson plans will be the imovie or Photostory. This will be used for the first lesson on the Solar System; the students will use this ICT to demonstrate their understanding of the features that make up the Solar System e.g. the sun, the moons, the planets, the orbits of the planets. We chose this ICT for this lesson plan as the students have a lot of freedom in the way they can present, for instance they can pretend they are an alien space ship who has just entered the Solar System and is recording their sightings. The second piece of ICT we will use in our sequence of lesson plans will be a PowerPoint. This will be used for the second lesson based on the other planets and how they can compare with Earth, the students will use the PowerPoint as their final assessment to demonstrate their understanding on the differences of other planets between Earth e.g. Venus and Earth are similar size, but we cannot inhabit Venus due to poisonous gases. We chose this method of ICT for the assessment as it gives the students freedom and creativity, for instance they can create a powerpoint on each individual planet and characteristics and how they differentiate to Earth. The third piece of ICT we will use in our sequence of lesson plans will be the Podcast. This will be used for the third lesson which is based on the moon; the students will use the Podcast as a method of Assessment to show their understanding of their moon and its features. We chose this method of ICT for the assessment as it gives the students freedom and creativity to show their learning and understanding, for instance they can recreate a recording of the first landing on the moon. In that they can describe, what they can see, what things look like, how things feel and other observations that distinguish the moon and make it significant. For the final lesson plan on space exploration we will let the students choose their method of ICT to use for assessment, as by now they will have learnt the differences in all of them and know which methods they prefer. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">As an assessment on the whole topic of space we will get the students to create a Webquest to tie all 4 learning areas in together and their understanding.

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