| What role do teachers play in directing learning with ICT? |
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Although ICT changes the ways in which teachers direct learning, it doesn’t replace them. Developing an understanding of how to support students who are completing learning activities using ICT, in order to ensure that they are being challenged and their learning tested, is clearly an important ingredient in the development of teachers’ roles. 
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Would it be helpful for you to explore your understanding of your role in supporting ICT in the classroom? Could you identify an ICT activity you use regularly and feel confident with, then ask a colleague to observe a lesson in which you use this activity to give you a more detailed picture of the different roles you take than ordinary recall provides? You might like to ask them to consider:
Moving forward Do you need to do some diagnostic work to establish which ICT skills get in the way of learning about core objectives in your lessons? Could you plan, for example, an intensive activity to ensure that all students know how to store data and generate a graph automatically, or use all the available formatting tools to improve presentation? Find out more  The full project is InterActive Education: teaching and learning in the information age, led by Prof. Rosamund Sutherland, Prof. Susan Robertson, and Prof. Peter John. The project website is at: http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/
You might like to read a review of the research literature on barriers to the uptake of ICT by teachers available at: http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/barriers.pdf
You might like to read a review of 42 studies about the use of ICT: Scrimshaw, P. (2004) Enabling teachers to make successful use of ICT. Becta. This article is available online at: http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/enablers.pdf
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