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Title | ||
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Rhetoric and reality: using ICT to enhance pupil learning-Harry Potter and the Warley Woods Mystery-Case study 2 |
Abstract | ||
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How can we use ICT to enhance the quality of pupil learning? The case study below deliberately embedded ICT within the context of an existing scheme of work to develop 11-12 year olds' understanding of the skills and processes of historical investigation. It also mapped onto the existing teaching styles of the teachers involved, and reflected their orientation beliefs and values. The role for the ICT was to present the pupils with a problem that would intrigue, excite and motivate them. Accordingly, we asked them to act in role as assistants to Harry and Hermione in investigating the strange death of Sam Woodhouse in 1822. The pupils carried out the investigation using a hyperlinked set of clues. They had undertaken two identical kinds of investigation earlier in the year. One was a murder mystery, the other the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower in 1483. For both these mysteries the clues were on cards. Comparisons of the results of the ICT mystery with those of the earlier two investigations suggest that the hyperlink version was equally effective in terms of developing understanding, with some clear advantages in developing pupils' overall understanding of the problem and ability to make links between disparate clues and pieces of information. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2003 | 10.1111/1467-8535.00320 | BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Technology integration,Scheme of work,Information technology,Sociology,Pupil,Rhetoric,Hyperlink,Information and Communications Technology,Pedagogy,Role playing | Journal | 34.0 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2.0 | 0007-1013 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Nichol | 1 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Kate Watson | 2 | 8 | 1.92 |
| Graham Waites | 3 | 1 | 0.36 |