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Many teachers find that students’ writing processes become more fluid when they use computer software. Students usually find ICT offers increased opportunities to edit and redraft their work, allowing them to make small changes and instantly see the effects. 
Your evidence
You might like to work with a colleague to investigate how ICT affects students’ writing processes. Take a look at two pieces of your students’ work one of which they wrote by hand and the other which they used a computer to produce: • why did you chose ICT to support the chosen activity and what impact did it have on students’ work? • was redrafting an important part of the writing activity? If not would it have affected the quality of their work? (Adapted from Reflective Activity 9-4a on the Reflective Teaching website at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch09/ra9-4a.html) Moving forward Once you have reviewed how you already use ICT to support students’ writing processes you might like to think about how you can use it in your future lessons. Perhaps you could incorporate ICT when planning for challenging writing activities? Could you find opportunities to use ICT when the final version is more important than the process, for example producing a flyer for parents’ evening? Find out more  The full project is InterActive Education: teaching and learning in the information age set out to answer a big question lead by Prof. Rosamund Sutherland, Prof. Susan Robertson, and Prof. Peter John. The project website is at: http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/ You can find out more about how electronic resources can be used to support learning by reading a TRIPS digest at: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/ict/storybook_reading/ |
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