NDLI: Teaching ICT-related skills in primary school, using Geography as an initial educational framework

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Garyfallidou, D.M. Ioannidis, G.S.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: The Science Laboratory, School of Education, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (Garyfallidou, D.M.; Ioannidis, G.S.)
Abstract	A new teaching sequence using ICT methods and tools was designed, to teach Geography as well as ICT skills, to primary school students. The starting point was the geography lesson, as by its very nature offers many different possibilities in teaching while using Google earth, search engines, creation of presentations being only some of them. This study focuses on a) familiarising students with basic ICΤ skills like the use of useful popular packages, and b) providing an alternative and more interesting way to teach Geography. The participants in this educational trial were 17 primary school students aged between 10 & 11. The trial took place mostly in the computer lab of a fairly average primary school located in one of Athens's sprawling suburbs. By the end of the trial most of the students have acquired skills in using most of the ICT packaged employed while refining in parallel their overall ICT competence. The trial demonstrated that computers can be used in stimulating teaching and learning, while teaching students to read carefully and assess the information found on the net as to its trustworthiness and relevance with the learning objective. Students' skills in communication and collaboration were also deemed to be greatly enhanced.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
File Size	1862933
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467324250
e-ISBN	9781467324274
e-ISBN	9781467324267
DOI	10.1109/ICL.2012.6402120
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-26
Publisher Place	Austria
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computers Geography Google Geography teaching Presentation creation in school General purpose software teaching Search engines in school Educational institutions Earth Google Earth in school Internet Web searching ICT skills teaching Google Earth
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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