Timaru+Christian


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 * **How can we use ICT Tools, strategies and thinking in our teaching and learning to improve student achievement in Written Language?** ||
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 * Students are using well aware of our cyber safety guidelines [[file:Cybersafety Use Agreement Form.pdf]]

Students in Junior class are using iPod Touches and computers to support learning in writing || Powerful Learning Environments in Primary Education? by Smeets (2005) []
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 * As a part of Master of Educational Leadership I have just finished an indepth study of the research paper 'Does ICT Contribute to

This paper looks at the effect of information communication technologies (ICT) in education from a slightly different angle from the regular line of questioning which queries what impact ICT has on learning? (Higgins, 2003; Harrison et al, 2002) This paper by Smeets (2005), looks to identify the contribution ICT makes to powerful learning environments. Smeets answers this through the analysis of 331 surveys completed by teachers of grade eight students in the Netherlands.

The survey included three sections, teacher and class variables, characteristics of the learning environment and the use of ICT. Funding for the research was given from the National Organization for Scientific Research in the Netherlands and focused on answering the following questions: 1. What are the characteristics of learning environments in the highest grade of primary (grade 8) education? 2. What is the contribution of ICT to the learning environment? 3. What factors influence the use of ICT in the learning environment? || We also have a school facebook page to engage and inform our community. [] ||
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 * Timaru Christian School has a website with classroom wikis embeded [|www.timaruchristian.school.nz]
 * Timaru Christian School has a website with classroom wikis embeded [|www.timaruchristian.school.nz]
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 * The principal has registered on the VLN, teachers are to follow suit this week. ||