June Jelly
18th February saw primary and secondary teachers come along to EDS to a CPD session on ICT for delivering the Sciences’ experiences & outcomes. Tracey Stewart, our QIO who looks after Sciences in Dundee, Helen Jack, our Curriculum for Excellence Staff Tutor, and I, helped set the participants on an exploration of ICT that can help support Science learning and teaching.
We looked firstly at the many resources and software at our disposal on Dundee Schools’ network, such as ActivInspire and Comic Life. Next, we looked at the many Glow Groups, both national and local that can help, and the many great resources that are available from the national Glow site. We looked at the many national Science based Glow Meets coming up this term.
Helen took us through the process of using the online Curriculum for Excellence planning tool, which can save SO much time and effort when we are, for example, tying together Sciences outcomes with the associated literacy, numeracy and health & wellbeing outcomes that will all be delivered together in a lesson.
Tracey showed us round SSERC’s Science 3-18 site and how it has been structured around the experiences and outcomes, with more resources being added all the time.
Teachers then had time to explore the many ICT resources highlighted by Ollie Bray at SSERC’s conference in November, as well as dipping into all the other possibilities. This had been made easier by links to everything in the twilight being listed in the ICT Glow Group on a new Science page. Check out this page if you were not able to attend the CPD session. Let us know what you find useful.
Science Page in ICT Glow Group