Embedding ICT in Humanities
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The use of ICT needs to add value to teaching and learning in History and Geography. Identifying “when, when not and how” to use ICT in a way that enhances pupils’ learning has implications for the teacher.
ICT can support and enhance pupils’ learning in History and Geography by providing them with rapid access to a wide range of information and source material to explore and investigate, including text and images relating to people and places, statistical data, satellite images, maps, photographs, and film clips.
ICT can support pupils’ understanding of historical patterns and relationships, as they learn to problem solve, to ask questions, and to come up with answers, for example, when using a census database to search for information on groups of people to identify and explain patterns of change.
A major advantage of using ICT in Geography is that pupils can access up to date information. By accessing this information, and through communicating with other people in their own, similar or contrasting areas, pupils can recognise similarities and differences between places, and begin to understand how environments can change.
ICT opportunities in the History and Geography programmes of study
In developing their knowledge and understanding, pupils can use software to:
- find out about people, events and changes
- search, select, sort, and present information, for example, from the internet, in a variety of ways
- express their opinions and communicate their understanding by making use of digital images and film clips
- access digital maps, for example, in a local study.
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