Teaching Solutions - IT series: descriptions, ISBNs, prices

IT for Kids

Lesson plans and activities for developing computer skills

by Jo Stewart & Lew Cochrane

A 6-book series covering all the primary school years, providing teachers and students with a whole school IT teaching and learning program.

The books address key IT skills in accordance with seven technology competencies:

computer operations
graphics
word processing
the internet
email
spreadsheets
multimedia

Each unit is comprised of activities that either introduce or reinforce a skill, and which can also act as a springboard for further lessons.

Because student ability levels may differ significantly — affected by variables such as computer access, staff expertise and socioeconomic circumstances — the books can be used either prescriptively, as a grade-based program of teaching and learning activities, or flexibly by combining one or more books to provide remediation or extension as required.

Each book contains:

a SKILLS SCOPE AND SEQUENCE CHART, which is central to the series and serves as a foundation for a developmental whole-school IT program, a programming guide and assessment checklist for teachers, and a self-assessment checklist for students
TEACHER FOCUS pages that specify essential background information, skills to be taught, vocabulary applicable to the lesson, tips and tricks, and a suggested lesson procedure
photocopiable STUDENT ACTIVITY WORKSHEETS, both theoretical and practical, with accompanying extension activities
a double-paged ASSESSMENT ― based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy, and including appropriate higher order thinking tasks.

The authors each have over 20 years’ teaching experience, including long periods as IT co-ordinators and regional IT facilitators.

ISBN	Book 1	978-1-921454-75-2
	Book 2	978-1-921454-76-9
	Book 3	978-1-921454-77-6
	Book 4	978-1-921454-78-3
	Book 5	978-1-921454-79-0
	Book 6	978-1-921454-80-6
Price	Books 1-2	$36.95 each
	Books 3-6	$39.95 each
Level	years 1-6/7

Available	now

ICT and Literacy

Ideas and Resources

by Trevor Millum

A friendly accessible source book of ideas showing how, why and when you should use ICT in the classroom.

Features

Offers a wide range of activities, suitable for years 3 to 7, based on enjoyable texts which students can manipulate, imitate, extend, reduce, collapse or just read.
Gives ideas on integrating ICT activities with other work in the English classroom, but which can also be easily adapted to other curriculum areas.
Most activities lend themselves to pairs or small-group work.
Includes a CD with sample texts.
Teachers with little ICT experience will be able to use this book to develop interesting and relevant experiences.

ISBN	978-1-921454-19-6
Price	$32.95
Level	years 3-6/7

Available	now

Using ICT in the Early Years

by John Siraj-Blatchford and Alex Morgan

In an increasingly technological world with growing curriculum demands for children to become technologically literate, many early years teachers feel lost at how to approach this topic.

This book, written by the foremost experts in the UK in Early Years ICT, is a step-by-step guide on how to teach young children a variety of ICT. Importantly, this book also answers what many teachers feel is a weakness of ICT by offering suggestions for using technology to develop children’s creative thinking and provide opportunities for outdoor play.

Many different types of ICT are explained through activities that even the most technophobic of practitioners can carry out — from work with simulation games, through to programmable toys and Interactive White Boards.