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How can New Technologies improve teaching and learning across the National Curriculum in different educational settings? The way ICT is used in class has to be a meaningful authentic part of the work scheme, not an isolated "computer task".
ICT has to be woven into each subject's pedagogic style, rather than devising a generic approach to teaching ICT.  
English
Maths
Science
Projects involving word-processing, email, film, spelling and study of literary texts. Children respond to the visual power of ICT which is reflected in theirwriting.
When examining the concept of enlargement using Dynamic Geometry software one group discovered by accident what happens to an object when you apply a negative scale factor
ICT used for computer-simulated experiments - allow students to explore the wilder frontiers of class- room science in a tidier, safer way, so pupils can examine what happens to a lamp when its power source is overloaded or even study radioactive decay.
"It can help them to understand abstract concepts such as imagery,...For example, students were asked to select key words from a poem and then download pictures from the internet to illustrate their understanding of tone or imagery. They then analysed and defended their choices. It increases their confidence in writing about poetry." Children are allowed to experiment so are happy to go beyond what the teacher asks them to do and make new discoveries not possible without the use of ICT.
Pupils working on a computer
ICT helps make the abstract real - or at least virtual.

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