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Summary of understanding of project ** I believe that the underpinning purpose of this project is to gain an understanding of the vast range of ways ICT can be integrated into lessons in a regular classroom. The role we have as students is to create four consecutive lessons based on a particular subject/topic which are ICT integrated. These lessons must contain atleast three forms of ICT other than the interactive whiteboard and the internet. We are also required to establish and edit a WIKI consisting of a teacher’s page, task page and processes page. The teacher’s page will be where we upload all information based on the assignment including brainstorms, plans, reflections etc. To begin this assignment we are required to brainstorm ideas as to what topic to present and how. We are also required to create a series of at least four tasks for students to complete, which need to be linked to LAO’S and further produced as individual lesson plans for each task. Furthermore w e are required to create an evaluation rubric for students, in order for them to understand the task at hand and produce the task at a high standard. The final stage of this assignment requires us to design a reflection activity to evaluate and summarise the task that provided to students. The main aim of this assessment is to gain a better understanding of how ICT can be used and integrated into everyday lessons within the primary school classroom and to encourage the teachers of today to experiment and gain confidence in using ICT. ** ICT integration project and social constructivism: ** My ICT integration project, which is based on the theme of environmental conservation, has been centred around the social constructivist theory in a number of ways. Each lesson that has been created has been based on several aspects related to a social constructivist classroom. Environmental conservation is a real-world issue that all students are able to relate to and is something that is meaningful to students and the wider community. Lesson one, which is all about investigating environmental conservation and the Conservation and Land Management commission is a highly inetractive lesson which requires students to play very interactive roles in the teaching and learning process. In this particular lesson students are required to participate in collaborative class discussions along with individual investigations into the topic of the lesson, environmental conservation. To further develop students social interaction skills, the lesson closure consists of a sharing period in which students show their work to the rest of the class and the class comment on the merits and demerits of their work. Lesson two is also centred around a social constructivist classroom. This particular lesson allows students to work individually, yet it consists of student evaluation.The use of student evaluation within this lesson encourages the development of the zone of proximal development which argues that students can with the help of another student or an adult, master concepts that they cannot understand on their own. In this way students are able to evaluate another students work and assist them in improving their work in ways that they may not have understood themselves. Lesson three is once again based around a social constructivist classroom. This particular lesson involves a limited amount of problem solving whereby students are to analyse photography and come to a conclusion as to the connections between two photographs and thier relevance to the topic of environmental issues.
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The ICT's that I have chosen to use within my ICT integration project include Microsoft PowerPoint, Video, Learning Federation learning objects, internet, Inspiration concept maps, Interactive whiteboard, Photo Story, Images/photography and a student choice of either the paint program or Microsoft Movie Maker. I have chosen to use **PowerPoint presentation** within my project as I believe it is a good tool to use in the introduction of a topic. PowerPoint can be used to gain prior knowledge of students and to use as a visual aid to providing information to a class. I have integrated PowerPoint into my project by using it to present to students the topic of environmental issues. The PowerPoint consists of a variety of both visual information in the form of images supported by written information.
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 * Video** is also another ICT tool which can be used effectively within the classroom. Video resources can be used in a variety of ways to portray the views of others that are not often explored or students are unaware of. It can also be used to introduce students to topics in order to make them aware of issues or matters that they may not be aware of that are occuring within their community. I have integrated video into my ICT project in order to introduce students to the topic of environmental conservation, in this way I have used the video "Rething environmental conservation", this particular video is an eye opener to the issues that are occuring around the world and has been used as a dion and reflection tool to encouage sdnt to think deeply aboout the topic they are studying.
 * Inspiration** has been used withtin my projectt as a brainstorming tool in order to assist students in organising what they know and finding out what they would still like to know. Inspiration has been used in particular within my project as a recording tool for the information that students are able to research and gather for themselves.
 * Learning federation learning objects** can be used in a variety of ways within the classroom. Learning object can be used by the class teacher to portray information in a visual and interactive way, they can be used as a whole class activity in order to engage students and allow high levels of interaction within the classroom or they can be used individually by students to further enhance their knowledge and understanding by actually participating in completing a visual activity. The particular learning object in which I have chosen to integrate into my ICT project is based on campaigns. I have chosen to use this particular learning object as it is a very informative tool which effectively teaches students about the purpose of campaigns, their importance and how they are constructed. I believe that this was a great tool to use to introduce students to the topic of campaigns. Students are able to use the knowledge from the learning object and integrate their own knowledge and understandings about environmental conservation in order to create their own campaign and make it as effective as possible.

lessons 1, 3 and 4 are all linked to the Learning Area Outcome of place and space. Lesson one links to place and space as it introduces students to the topic of environmental conservation. Through students research they begin to form the understanding that each individual has an effect on the state of our planet and peoples values and beliefs determine how much of an interest they show in our environment, and the role they play in sustainability. The topic of lesson three is environmental conservation programs. Throughout this lesson students will develop an understanding that people in a community can cooperate to care for places. In this way students understand that it may seem like what we do as individuals does not make much difference but if each individual makes a small difference in our community it all adds up to large changes. The focus of lesson four is similar to lesson three in that this lesson is also aimed at making students aware that people in a community can cooperate to care for places. This outcome is evident through the students campaigns in which they are required to create a campaign promoting the importance of environmental conservation and encouraging others just like themselves to assist in the conservation of our environment. Lesson two has a slightly different focus from the other three lessons as the main outcome which is focused on in this lesson is time, continuity and change. The topic of lesson three is environmental issues this is related to the outcome of time, continuity and change because its aim is to make students aware that events and actions of people in the past have created what we have today, and our actions today will be the result of the state of our planet in the future. Therefore, when we explore environmental issues we have to consider what caused these issues, what are we doing today that is going to result in future environmental issues and how must we change what we are doing today to reduce environmental issues in the future.
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The overall design of my ICT project based on the topic of environmental conservation, I believe, is signifiant to students lives today and is stimulating to it's target audience of year fives. Environmental conservation is a topic that is significant to the lives of primary aged students as they are the students that we must educate today in order to make a difference to our environment in the future. If we are able to educate students about the importance of environmental awareness and conservation we have a much higher chance of reducing the environmental issues that are occuring today from worsening in the future. Students in the age range of year five would be highly stimulated by this particular topic and the design of the project as it encourages students to get involved in their environment. It also encourages students to research and create a campaign based on a topic in which is closely related to themselves.

- **Environmental conservation Inspiration document:** [|Environmental conservation inspiration.isf] - **Lesson Introductions brainstorm: ** - **Project management plan:** [|prject management plan- ICT.doc] - **Evaluation rubric: ** -Lesson plans:** -//lesson plan 1- what is environmental conservation and who is CALM?//
 * -Reflection activity: [[file:self evaluation worksheet.docx]]

-//lesson plan 2- exploring environmental issues//

-//lesson plan 3- environmental conservation programs//

//-lesson plan 4- Campaign creation!//