Considering I was only a school year, maybe two, ahead of you Leah, I remember the Overhead Projectors (OHP’s), which we’d use for everything possible, from hymns in assemblies to diagrams in maths.
Looking back now seeing the change from primary too secondary, the technology was rapidly advancing within the 2000’s. At some part, too quick for the teachers to keep up with so we were still being taught to ‘just read from the textbook and make notes’ instead of interacting with possibly the only computer in the building in the primary years.
Getting into secondary school we saw more computers being rolled out, along with a classroom being dedicated to the ICT department that had the all new models of monitors, although now they would date back to 2003.
As I moved towards sixth form, screens in the hallways were being put up with daily updates of news, the schools twitter page and so on. As I left they gave a ‘school’ iPad to all Sixth form pupil in order to use ‘connect4’ where they could access their documents in a class with no need for a computer.
Shulman (1987, p15) states that the teacher must first comprehend what they are teaching, and then teach the subject in a way all children understand. (Beauchamp, 2012), and as a millennial that way is through some sort of social media or online based.
The video is a quick journey of ICT in education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s
References:
Beauchamp, G.K. (2012) ICT in the primary school: From pedagogy to practice. First edn. Harlow: Pearson.
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