ENgaging Students
Student engagement is critical to effective literacy learning. As the world progresses into a digital age, so too must student learning. While exploring written texts such as picture books can be fun and exciting, it is increasingly obvious that children are becoming more tech-savvy as they are exposed to the digital world at a much younger age.
ICTs are an inevitable part of a child's world, and let's face it, they fascinate children. Is your child always hounding you to play a game on your mobile phone? ICTs are fun, stimulating, familiar and meaningful tools that enhance student engagement, providing one of the many reasons why we have implemented an English curriculum that incorporates ICTs.
How do we do this? The following video shows one school implementing ICTs into the English curriculum to enhance student engagement and learning in a similar manner to Sunnyside Primary School.
ICTs are an inevitable part of a child's world, and let's face it, they fascinate children. Is your child always hounding you to play a game on your mobile phone? ICTs are fun, stimulating, familiar and meaningful tools that enhance student engagement, providing one of the many reasons why we have implemented an English curriculum that incorporates ICTs.
How do we do this? The following video shows one school implementing ICTs into the English curriculum to enhance student engagement and learning in a similar manner to Sunnyside Primary School.
Research shows that ICTs have the potential to engage students in subjects such as English and can be used to scaffold learning at a level higher than that expected of even low achieving students. With an abundance of recommendations on how to use ICTs to engage student learning, you can be assured that using ICTs for literacy learning will be strategically implemented and highly beneficial for your child.