Transferable Skills

I was reading The “Grumpy Old Teacher”’s blog earlier today, talking about “ICT Across the Curriculum”, and it reminded me that I’d intended to post my “mapping” document for the blog project, lining up how I thought it covered the various standards the learners are working towards, including both IT and the Communications Key Skill.

So here it is — Blogging and Key Skills (PDF)

Or as a Word doc. Blogging and Key Skills (Word doc)

In a way we have almost the opposite problem to a school trying to incorporate ICT into other lessons — we’re primarily an IT training centre trying to keep ICT integral to the other things we have to deliver to our learners, like literacy, numeracy, personal development and groupwork skills!

The buzzword (buzzphrase?) is “transferable skills”, but to me that’s “ICT Across the Curriculum” by another name.

I do have equivalent mapping for using ICT to teach numeracy — unfortunately they’re still only available inside my head at present.  Must sit down with the syllabus and get around to writing those down.

Google Maps for Measuring, Metric, and Shape and Space.  Excel cell formatting for Decimals, Percentage & Fractions, Annotator for turning word problems into actual sums, CreateAGraph for data handling, the BBC Skillswise website for practically everything…