Week 11 - Multimedia and Multiliteracies in the Primary School: Linking Theory and Practice (Part 2)

Our second school visit to Shirley warren Primary School had us working with the children to produce a ‘talking book’ to explain how Shirley Warren support the Children’s Rights.

The whole of our group was looking forward to working with the children to see what they could create and to also assess the digital literacy skills of this Year 1 class.  The ICT co-ordinator had already informed us that 29 out 30 of his class had access to an iPad outside the school in some form and therefore had a basic understanding of how to use an iPad and navigate its applications.

The challenges faced on this school visit included how to assess the children on their skills of using ICT, in this case iPads and apps.  The first hurdle we faced was not knowing the capabilities and skills of the children we would be working with (this would of course be different when working with our own classes).  However, I found it challenging to know how to move or progress the children’s skills; specifically to be able to create suitable objectives and aims for the children to work towards.

 

I have therefore identified a gap in my ICT content knowledge regarding progression and assessment of children’s ICT skills.  I will subsequently require to research into these areas, with which I hope to gain a deeper and broader understanding of how to assess the progression of children’s ICT skills.  This in turn will hopefully give me a clearer view of how to embed ICT into the curriculum more effectively.  I feel this is because I will know what skills the children would be needing when planning cross curricula activities with ICT.