The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education

The resources from the ICT tutors website are now available again in a more stable and reliable format. Click in the tab at the top of the page, or here.

In an attempt to avoid some of the unwanted tweets from around the world that seem to use the #itte hashtag, it has been changed to #itteorg - please advise of any problems.

An important factor in learning is that you are aware that you have learnt something. For lower ability learners this may need a scaffolding structure and it is this need that these resources were set out to address.

Created by the BCS Teacher Education Working Group and the Lewisham LA team the initial focus was on supporting the original KS3 ICT Strategy units but this was then extended into other key stages by the Lewisham team.

Although no teachers should still be using the units as originally published, the format and ideas represented in the KS3 diaries are still pedagogically appropriate. The KS4 project diary is still probably useable as it stands and the KS2 diaries could give a focus to ICT work in upper primary.

Thanks to Gill Edwards for locating a full set of these resources following the demise of the Lewisham web site. The rationale for use is also included in the bundle of materials.

You are free to download and adapt but it might be nice if you could let others know how you are using them. I have been recommending learning diaries to my ICT trainees as a tool for use in lesson plenaries.

Neil Stanley

The topic of writing for journals is one that many new colleagues often find rather bewildering. The world of academic writing can be a forbidding one for the newcomer, full of arcane knowledge and traditional, sometimes 'unwritten' rules.

In this article the ITTE Journal Editor, Steve Kennewell, shines a bright light into this murky area, and sets out a straightforward, easy to understand approach to producing a journal paper, from first conception of your ideas through to final draft and submission.

As journal editor, Steve welcomes submissions for the TPE journal. If you have ideas you wish to discuss with him, he can be contacted via the contact form.

Members can click here to read the article.

A selection of resources from the ITTE Summer Conference at Keele University are now available online. You can browse the conference programme by clicking here or on the attachment below. Access to the resources is for members only.

The review of the National Curriculum in England was launched by the Secretary of State on 20 January 2011. By the time submissions closed on 14 April, the Department for Education had received over 5,700 responses, one of the highest rates of response to such an exercise recorded by the Department.

ITTE submitted a detailed, evidence-based, 29 page response on your behalf. The paper argued the case for ICT to be a core subject and provided extensive evidence from research, studies, and reports from across the world in support of this contention.

You can read the full submission here.

The Department for Education's submission form is available here.

Download and read the updated conference brochure.

In 2010, ITTE bid for and was awarded the right to host a selection of Becta resources. These resources are hosted on this website under the terms of the Open Government Licence and as such are freely available for anyone to download and use under the terms of the OGL.

ITTE are pleased to be able to share Tim Rylands' talk - ICT to Inspire - from the ITTE Summer Conference 2010 at Liverpool Hope University. You can watch the video and the presentation here. (Members only)

 If you haven't already seen it, you should also check out Malcolm Hunt's fascinating presentation from the same conference - view his presentation and resources here. (Members only)