The Tudors using ICT.
Deputy Head Simon Botten has a unique and ambitious way of teaching his class about the wives of Henry VIII. He creatively adapts the QCA Scheme of Work to meet with the interests and abilities of his Year 5 pupils. He divides his class into six groups and allocates each group a wife. Working to the...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[London] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2005.
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| Series: | VAST: Academic Video Online
KS2 history ; 1-2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Deputy Head Simon Botten has a unique and ambitious way of teaching his class about the wives of Henry VIII. He creatively adapts the QCA Scheme of Work to meet with the interests and abilities of his Year 5 pupils. He divides his class into six groups and allocates each group a wife. Working to the tight deadline of one lesson, each group is asked to research, script and film their own Tudor-style newsreel, which can then be presented to the rest of the class. This lesson incorporates the use of ICT at three levels. Firstly, through the use of the whiteboard which allows Simon to set out the lesson objectives, secondly using the internet for research and thirdly through the use of small, user-friendly digital cameras to record the newsreels. The class are highly motivated throughout but are they more engaged with the technology than the actual history? What effect does the tight deadline have on their learning? Historians Dr Penelope Harnett and Dr Michael Riley, assess and critique Deputy Head Simon Botten's methods of teaching his Year 5 class about the wives of Henry VIII, as profiled in The Tudors using ICT 1. The lesson was not only ambitious in concept but also had to be achieved within a strict deadline of one hour. Whilst the experts support much of the idea behind the lesson, they question whether the timeframe and use of ICT distracted the children from the historical facts. Interesting questions are raised about curriculum balance and support and discussed by the panel. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (28 min.). |