Practical lessons

The more I investigate ICT and it's uses in school, the more I here the term "great but there is no time" and another one is "how do I fit it in?"

Being the way I am I have taken this onboard and have looked at practical applications thinking of those who are a bit reluctant to use ICT.

Navcon2k4 really inspired me but like others at the conference I couldn't help feeling that the wrong people were there. The innovations and cool ideas would have inspired anyone thinking of using ICT for the first time.

anyway back to the reason for this blog.
Today Maths
Graphs the most dry and boring subject that 8yr olds can have (quoted) I introduced Textease spreadsheets and the kids wanted to know about my holidays. This expanded into what teachers do in the holidays. We talked about good questions (I don't think we focus on this enough as teachers) and I organized the results to go in the newletter BANG we have ignition. These kids have blown me away. The graphs were all different but the information was all the same. These children actually started talking about gathering and sorting information and how it shows us what is happening which things are popular and what things are not. I found myself interested in the findings.

Now this was an already planned strand and I must admit I wasn't looking forward to it. You should have seen their faces when I said that was it we have now finished stats. They are wanting to look at other surveys. If it was my own class I would take this new skill and integrate it into something else.

Anyway any comments are greatly appreciated