APPROACHES TO TEACHING
Technology in the service of teaching
![]() In Steering the Supertanker: Changing Teaching and Learning In: Computers in the Schools: Technology Applications in Education (2005) Ed. Maddux, C., John P. Cuthell writes that “Three powerful elements of ICT provide drivers for e-learning.
Like he added, then “the challenge is to incorporate the affordances of ICT within a new pedagogy for eLearning.” |
Model of teaching
Laurillard's Conversational Model of teaching, which focuses on the use of technology in Higher Education (http://tinyurl.com/laurillard), adapted to a primary and secondary school context, is the main methodology that will be used by Connected Schools to guaranty a successful use of ICT. This model will be supported by the outcome of researches on Computer-supported collaborative learning. For now, the two main sources of good practice are the following Teaching and Learning Research Programmes:
Finally, drama and the methods developed by Jean-Pol Martin, Learning by teaching (LdL) is one of the means used to reinforce learning or even to discover new topics. |