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Symposium on the Development of Digital Content for the Irish Language Siompoisiam ar Fhorbairt agus Pleanail Chion Digiteach Gaeilge. LEARNING AND TEACHING SCOTLAND. Richard Pietrasik Executive Director. The Context.
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Symposium on the Development of Digital Content for the Irish Language Siompoisiam ar Fhorbairt agus Pleanail Chion Digiteach Gaeilge
LEARNING AND TEACHING SCOTLAND Richard Pietrasik Executive Director
The aim - for our schools, teachers, and pupils to be using ICT as a integral part of a quality teaching and learning process.
Priorities • Infrastructure • Content • Practice
Infrastructure • Connection to the grid • School’s Local Area Network • Desktop/Classroom technology • Management and support • Security
Content • Identification of relevant, quality content • Development of content - Software, Online • Teaching community’s ownership of this content • An understanding of the possibilities
Practice • Development of the basic technical skills for all involved in education • Integral natural confident ‘day to day’ use of these powerful resources. • Administrative use of technology • Encouragement of On-line Communities
Digital Video Voice Recognition Digicams Videoconferencing Games Machines WAP Phones Digital TV ……... Technologies, technologies
learning through technology Software
Gaelic resource Websitehttp://db.svtc.org.uk/grdb/grdmain.htm
Pioneer - Functions • Login - Closed environment • Course notes, resources, links • Notepad • Email • Forums/Debates - synchronous and asynchronous • Calendar • Help
“The impact of the development of ICT on Education will be more profound than that of the invention of the Printing Press.” Tim Brighouse, Chief Education Officer - Birmingham