Teaching English using ICT: A practical guide for secondary school teachers

✍ Scribed by Tom Rank

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Want to get boys excited about poetry? Try establishing a wiki-war on the use of form and structure. Or perhaps a podcast to develop close analysis of language. How about getting them blogging about their favourite characters? Based on established principles of the best ways to use ICT in English, this practical resource looks at when and how ICT can be used to engage and inspire students of English, but only when it enhances teaching and learning, never for its own sake. Beginning with an overview of what ICT can offer and how it is changing the way we teach and learn, the authors then give practical examples of activities and ideas to attain key English skills and learning goals in secondary schools. Throughout the book, there are tried-and-tested ideas for tackling the hard-to-teach topics, and there is also a dedicated website with links to useful websites, the authors' favourite tips and downloadable resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
1 Using ICT to Explore and Investigate......Page 17
2 Using ICT to Analyse Language......Page 35
3 Using ICT to Respond, Interpret, Reflect and Evaluate......Page 57
4 Using ICT to Compose and Create......Page 77
5 Using ICT to Transform......Page 98
6 Using ICT to Present and Perform......Page 119
7 Using ICT to Communicate and Collaborate......Page 132
8 Using ICT to Inspire and Engage......Page 150
9 Using ICT to Entertain......Page 162
D......Page 170
L......Page 171
V......Page 172
W......Page 173
Further Reading and Browsing......Page 174
P......Page 176
Y......Page 177