This document summarizes how ICT is used to support learning at AMS. It lists several applications of ICT for reading, numeracy, writing, inquiry, discovery, and more. Technologies used include interactive whiteboards, computers, iPads, apps like Reading Eggs, Mathletics, and Educreations. ICT allows students to research online, record audio, publish writing, and engage in hands-on activities to enrich the learning experience.

1. ICT SHOWCASE – ROOM 4
At AMS, we use ICT to
support and enrich
learning.

2. Reading
• Reading Eggs using the class computers on the
internet
• iPad voice recording apps
• We are learning about Audioboo, an
application that allows us to put audio files
directly onto blogs
• Research on the internet
• Easy speak microphone for direct recording

3. Numeracy
• Interactive Whiteboard – tools on the
whiteboard
• Mathletics – class computers
• iPad – Hungry fish
• Easy speak microphone
• Ipad – Educreations to explain and draw
thinking

4. Writing
• Publishing writing onto class blog
• Publishing writing onto personal learning
journey blogs
• Modelling on the Interactive Whiteboard
• Interactive Whiteboard activities

5. Inquiry
• Using iPad for inquiry activities
• Keeping a learning journey (adding photos and
text for different learning activities)
• Classroom computers to complete inquiry
activities (like cartoon skeletons)
• Computer suite
• Photography
• Research
• Wordle – word picture clouds

6. Discovery
• Taking photos
• Using websites like wildmusic.org for creating
soundscapes
• iPad apps like garageband
• Physics games

7. And lots more!
“We need technology in every classroom and in
every student and teacher’s hand, because it
is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the
lens through which we experience much of
our world.”
David Warlick: Educator, Writer, Programmer, Public Speaker & Entrepreneur