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Students can be empowered by working on authentic texts for real audiences and ICT increases the opportunities for this to happen. English and ICT teachers worked together to explore the effects on student attitudes of being asked to produce a newsletter for parents. 
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You might like to think about the ways in which working with an authentic purpose motivates your students. Review your lesson plans over the last term and identify occasions where you have given students a task where the product was for a real audience, for example creating a poster for a school production. How did having an authentic purpose affect: • the work produced by your students? • the attitudes and motivation of your students? (Adapted from Reflective Activity 7-2e on the Reflective Teaching website at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch07/ra7-2e.html) Moving forward Now you have considered how the use of authentic activities motivates your students, you might like to consider the other ways in which you motivate them. Think about how you use different types of activity, verbal encouragement, and praise. Could you also ask your students to think about what motivates them in the classroom? 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/ Find out more about effective pedagogy with ICT: Moseley, D., Higgins, S. et al. (1999) Ways forward with ICT: Effective Pedagogy using Information and Communications Technology for Literacy and Numeracy in Primary Schools. This article is available online at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001369.htm Find out more about gender differences in writing motivation and achievement by reading a TRIPS Digest at: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/literacy/TueJun241516322003/ You might like to read a teacher research summary on enhancing pupil engagement at: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/ntrp/lib/pdf/farquharandsawyer.pdf |
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