How can ICT impact upon the development of thinking skills at Key Stage 3?
In the view point this week, Matt Buxton, Assistant Head of ICT Development, Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham has expressed his views deliberating on three main areas of computers being used to develop thinking within students: using the computer as a tutor, using the computer as a mindtool and using the computer as a stimulant for dialogue between students possessing a ‘thinking vocabulary’. Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham where the author is involved in ICT Development project, is looking closely at how PCs can be used in conjunction with software to replicate the internal cognitive processes, as a mindtool. Read his views here…
