I have been busy creating resources to provide guidance for year 11 students in writing their ICT DIDA reviews. Often, the students who show a aptitude for ICT do not have the literacy skills to express themselves clearly in their final review of their work.
To help me identify the problems they face, I went to the assessors' report and highlighted the areas of weakness that are due to poor literacy skills. Attached are a couple of lesson ideas to help students overcome these problems and focus their reviews on the areas that the course requires. Assessors' comments Proofreading DIDA review
ICT teachers can feel free to use these and tailor them to suit your needs. I would love some feedback as I am happy to do more work on the resources to improve them further.
Keywords: DIDA review, GCSE, ICT, Literacy
Comments
Wow!
This is really helpful Jean. Now I know why my students are struggling so much with their Reviews... their ICT teacher needs some training from an English teacher!!
Keep this sort of thing coming. I'll help get it disseminated to as many ICT teachers as possible.
Alex
Thanks for the positive comments. Think we need to work on these skills earlier than year 11. Will be working on that with our ICT department at Framingham Earl. Will certainly pass on any more materials I think you might like to try out.
Jean