Evolving Education

A course for Year 10s. They come to me for 4-5 80 minute sessions looking at ICT. I have decided to make blogging the theme of the moment for these girls and am looking at getting them to set up their own learning blogs. Most have Bebo so we have already established that they are blogging already so we are distinguishing these as personal blogs.

We will use learnerblogs for hosting. We have already done a lesson on web safety and search engines. We looked at the difference between search engines and portals and at how people make money on the web – this was a good angle to take because from this came the more dodgy aspects of how people make money from web surfers but in a very real world sense. It was amazing how naive they were about handing out their contact details etc. etc. so this provided an opportunity for some really good conversations.

They were fairly unanimous in their love of Google and weren’t too keen to swap to any new search engines even though we looked at kartoo and ujiko. They found these fun but only used them as a gimmick and when they really wanted something they went back to Google.

Hopefully my course will be really fun and beneficial to the students. I will update this page with my resources and specific lesson ideas.