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Using TAPs across
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There
is a statutory requirement to use ICT to support pupils'
learning in every Key Stage 3 subject. However, the
ieet see the main purpose of using TAPs in a lesson
(also across curricula), may be to develop pupils' skills
and understanding in a number of technology based subjects.
If so, the TAPs objectives may be at a relatively low
level (although they may provide some useful practice).
On the other hand, the main purpose of the use of TAPs
in another subject may be to enhance pupils' ICT, ECT
and DT capabilities in a different context. In this
case, the subsidiary objectives for the other subject
must be challenging enough to meet pupils' needs in
that subject without distracting from the TAPs objectives.
Ieet resources and approach is not a panacea for all
eventualities. In some situations they will be the best
way to convey or consolidate a new concept, but not
always. TAPs needs to be planned carefully into departmental
schemes of work so that pupils make good progress. Teachers
or subject providers can check whether the use of TAPs
is appropriate by asking whether it will:
* Allow pupils to investigate or be creative in ways
not possible otherwise;
* Give them access to information not otherwise readily
available;
* Engage them in the selection and interpretation of
information;
* Help them to think through and understand important
ideas;
* Enable them to see patterns or behaviours more clearly;
* Add reliability or accuracy to measurements;
* Enhance the quality of their presentations;
* Save time, for example, spent on measuring, recording
or writing.
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