5 Teaching ICT at Key Stage 1 – within the arts

Using ICT in the arts at Key Stage 1

This website offers guidance to teachers on the use of ICT within art and design:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ 20100823130703/ http:/ curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/ key-stages-1-and-2/ learning-across-the-curriculum/ ictinsubjectteaching/ ictinartanddesign/ index.aspx [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

This website looks at ICT within design and technology:

While this one looks at ICT within music:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ 20100823130703/ http:/ curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/ key-stages-1-and-2/ learning-across-the-curriculum/ ictinsubjectteaching/ ictinmusic/ index.aspx

Reflection

What suggestions are made for using ICT skills within the arts?
Are any of those suggestions evidenced within your classroom practice?
Why might some be under-represented? Is this caused by lack of resources, lack of curriculum time, poor teacher confidence or something else?
Have you used ICT to support learning and/or teaching in the arts in a different way?

Practical applications

ICT statutory requirements

There are no statutory requirements to teach ICT within the arts at KS1; however, it is expected that teachers will do so and the websites listed above describe ICT opportunities related to the relevant programmes of study.

Have a look at the following resources provided by Teachers TV:

http://www.schoolsworld.tv/ series/ diy-whiteboard-primary-music-animations

http://www.schoolsworld.tv/ videos/ making-bags

Or this primary art resource from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ northernireland/ schools/ 4_11/ primaryart/

Or this collaborative art space:

http://www.artjunction.org/

Reflection

Could introducing your pupils to these games/simulations help you to enhance their experience of learning about the arts?
What features of these resources might encourage you to adopt/reject them as tools to support learning?
Is there any scope for teaching ICT objectives alongside the arts objectives? (Hint: ‘Exchanging and sharing ideas’.) What might some of the benefits/problems be?
What about other aspects of ICT? How might you introduce handling data, research, sensing, control and modelling objectives?

Other resources

Ictopus: Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free web-based support service for primary education. Amongst the resources it provides are lesson plans designed to promote the use of ICT within the curriculum. The ‘Lessons2Go’ resources can be sorted by subject or age group once you are logged in.

http://www.ictopus.org.uk