Effective ICT project ideas for the classroom. These ICT ideas are designed to effect authentic learning that aid to contextualise students learning and integrate curriculum needs into ICT projects and to effect critical thinking and creativity in our students through project based learning. We hope that teachers will find such ICT implementation truly useful for their curriculum needs and find it rewarding to implement these ICT ideas in their classes. We appreciate all comments to help us improve on these ideas.

1. Using Free Tools & Web 2.0
15 ICT Ideas
for the
Classroom
Authentic
Contextualised
Experiential

2. Do we need ICT in the
classroom?
Educational Games?

3. Problems with ICT in the
classroom
• Non-authentic learning and meaningless consumption of
educational media perpetuates the old problems of traditional
classroom – passive & disengaged learners
• Disjointed from classroom and curriculum needs
• Adds to teachers’ plates and students’ learning requirement i.e.
learn ICT skills ON TOP of curriculum
• Technology driven, not pedagogy driven.

4. How to
create
?
There is a need to integrate
ICT more meaningfully in
the classroom, with
consideration of learners’
needs and technology
affordances!

5. ICT is a great mean for…
Learning by doing.
Give the pupils something to do,
not something to learn; and the doing is
of such a nature as to demand
thinking; learning naturally results.
~ John Dewey
How do we
learn?

6. ICT engages learners by
Learning by doing.
Tell me and I forget;
Teach me and I may remember;
Involve me and I will learn.
~ Xunzi(312-230 BC)

7. ICT – the mean of
Doing in the
classroom
To become
• 21st Century Competent
• Critical Thinkers
• Creative Builders

8. Meaningful ICT in the classroom
• Learning must be authentic and
contextualised.
• ICT must be the mean of learning,
and not the end in mind.
• ICT as a mean of doing something,
creatively and collaboratively;
involving critical thinking
• ICT as a mean to expand minds.
“Learn to learn, with ICT,
not learn ICT.”

9. 15Meaningful
ICT Project
Ideas
For learning by doing

10. #1. Create a SlideShare
As an alternative task to
composition or
argumentative writing,
task students to collaborate
and create a SlideShare using
PowerPoint and these 
PowerPoint Templates.

12. #3. Create a Life Cycle V-
Log
Task students to create a Vlog using
PowerPoint to explain [Life Cycle]
1. Task them to do research on the topic
at hand to create the slides & write
their own narration script.
2. Use Audacity to record their
narration.
3. Import audio into PowerPoint
4. Enhance V-log with animation and
slides transition.
5. Save as .mp4 or .wmv file.
6. Upload to LMS or Youtube
Full lesson slides and lesson plans free for
download here.

13. #4.
Create a Class
Newsletter
Task students to create a
newsletter using PowerPoint
Full lesson slides, lesson plans &
PowerPoint newsletter templates free for
download here.

16. www.vecteezy.com

20. Full lesson slides, lesson plans
& PowerPoint templates free
for download here.

22. #13.
Create a History
Infographic
Timeline
Task students to research and
summarise key milestones of a
selected topic. Present info
using a timeline design.
Infographics PowerPoint newsletter
templates free for download here.

25. Feel free to comment on the ICT ideas. Provide feedback to
mh@learninghero.co
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