Whole class teaching: Eyes on the board, please

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Average expenditure'; Text[0]+=' from central government on ICT for teaching and learning '; Text[1]=' £41,800 per school in 1999. So how is the future shaping up? Firstly, in schools that have moved ah'; Text[1]+='ead most in ICT (Information Communications Technology), developments have been driven '; Text[2]=' empowered and connected teachers confident enough to shape ICT to meet their classroom. Secondly, t'; Text[2]+='he progress of ICT in whole class teaching points to the end of \'computer room mentality\', and wirel'; Text[2]+='ess communication and portable computers have played a major part here. Last month the Isle of Man b'; Text[2]+='ought 500 Airport wireless networking cards for the teachers\' Apple laptop computers '; Text[3]=' they can move about the class with their machines and still stay connected to the internet and netw'; Text[3]+='ork printers. And now in Cornwallis School, Maidstone, over 100 Acer laptop computers '; Text[4]=' to a school-wide wireless network.

Thirdly, new collaborative learning software and perm'; Text[4]+='anent high speed access to resources over the internet is allowing inter-school conferencing and com'; Text[4]+='munication '; Text[5]=', using voice and image tools alongside text. In five years\' time \'computer rooms\' will be a thing o'; Text[5]+='f the past, just like separate rooms for the TV or the blackboard. Computers '; Text[6]=' to the classroom, not vice-versa.

New types of collaborative '; Text[7]=' like RM\'s Discourse are starting to emerge. Here students and teachers can collaborate and question'; Text[7]+=' as they build '; Text[8]=' own bodies of knowledge over school computer networks. It gives a digital alternative to the \'hands'; Text[8]+=' up\' method of classroom interaction with obvious benefits for '; Text[9]=' too shy or unsure to go public. Whole class teaching with ICT has taken hold in many schools thanks'; Text[9]+=' to a rise in quality and a drop in price of the data projector - a device that takes the computer d'; Text[9]+='isplay and projects it onto any wall or screen so that the whole class may see and share. To help te'; Text[9]+='achers further, many companies provide interactive whiteboards - in effect giant touchscreens throug'; Text[9]+='h which teachers '; Text[10]=' operate the computer.'; State = new Array(); CharList = new Array(); EscapeList = new Array(); function StartUp(){ //Try to get user name UserName = prompt('Please enter your name and ID number',''); UserName += ''; if ((UserName.substring(0,4) == 'null')||(UserName.length < 1)){ UserName = prompt('Please enter your name and ID number',''); UserName += ''; if ((UserName.substring(0,4) == 'null')||(UserName.length < 1)){ window.location = PreviousPage; } } var i = 0; for (i=0; i 0){ OutString += FoundCode; } else{ OutString += NextChar; } } return OutString; } var MacChars = '%80%81%82%83%84%85%86%87%88%89%8A%8B%8C%8D%8E%8F%90%91%92%93%94%95%96%97%98%99%9A'; MacChars += '%9B%9C%9D%9E%9F%A0%A1%A4%A5%A6%A7%A8%AA%AB%AC%AE%AF%B4%B6%BB%BC%BE%BF%C0%C1%C2%C4%C7%C8'; MacChars += '%C9%CA%CB%CC%CD%CE%CF%D0%D1%D2%D3%D4%D5%D6%D8%D9%DA%DB%DC%DD%E0%E1%E2%E3%E4%E5%E6%E7%E8%E9'; MacChars += '%EA%EB%EC%ED%EE%EF%F1%F2%F3%F4%F5%F6%F7%F8%FB%FD'; var WinChars = '%C4%C5%C7%C9%D1%D6%DC%E1%E0%E2%E4%E3%E5%E7%E9%E8%EA%EB%ED%EC%EE%EF%F1%F3%F2%F4'; WinChars += '%F6%F5%FA%F9%FB%FC%86%BA%A7%95%B6%DF%AE%99%92%A8%C6%D8%A5%F0%AA%BA%E6%F8%BF%A1%AC%83%AB%BB'; WinChars += '%85%82%C0%C3%D5%8C%9C%96%97%93%94%91%92%F7%FFY/%A4%8B%9B%87%B7%82%84%89%C2%CA%C1%CB'; WinChars += '%C8%CD%CE%CF%CC%D3%D4%D2%DA%DB%D9%B9%88%98%AF%B0%94'; WinChars = unescape(WinChars); MacChars = unescape(MacChars) function MacStringToWin(InString){ var OutString = ''; for (i=0; i '~') && (MacChars.indexOf(InString.charAt(i)) > -1) ){ OutString += WinChars.charAt(MacChars.indexOf(InString.charAt(i))); } else { OutString += InString.charAt(i); } } return OutString; } function WinStringToMac(InString){ var OutString = ''; for (i=0; i '~') && (WinChars.indexOf(InString.charAt(i)) > -1) ){ OutString += MacChars.charAt(WinChars.indexOf(InString.charAt(i))); } else { OutString += InString.charAt(i); } } return OutString; } function TrimString(InString){ var x = 0 if (InString.length != 0) { while ((escape(InString.charAt(InString.length - 1)) == '%20') || (escape(InString.charAt(InString.length - 1)) == '%0A') || (escape(InString.charAt(InString.length - 1)) == '%0D')){ InString = InString.substring(0, InString.length - 1) } while ((escape(InString.charAt(0)) == '%20') || (escape(InString.charAt(0)) == '%0A') || (escape(InString.charAt(0)) == '%0D')){ InString = InString.substring(1, InString.length) } while (InString.indexOf(' ') != -1) { x = InString.indexOf(' ') InString = InString.substring(0, x) + InString.substring(x+1, InString.length) } return InString; } else { return ''; } } function ConvertCase(InString, Direction){ var FromString = ''; var ToString = ''; if (Direction == 0){ FromString = UpperString; ToString = LowerString; } else{ FromString = LowerString; ToString = UpperString; } var i = 0; j = 0; var OutString = ''; for (i=0; i -1){ j = FromString.indexOf(InString.charAt(i)); OutString += ToString.charAt(j); } else{ OutString += InString.charAt(i); } } return OutString; } function CheckAnswers(){ SaveCurrentAnswers(); var AllCorrect = 1; //Check each answer for (var i = 0; i< I.length; i++){ if (State[i][4] != 1){ //If it's right, calculate its score if (CheckAnswer(i, true) > -1){ var TotalChars = GetGapValue(i).length; State[i][3] = (TotalChars-State[i][1])/TotalChars; if (State[i][0] > 0){State[i][3] = State[i][3]/2;} if (State[i][3]<0){State[i][3] = 0;} State[i][4] = 1; } else{ //Otherwise, add zero to the array and increment the hints for this item, as a penalty State[i][1]++; State[i][3] = 0; //then set the flag AllCorrect = 0; } } } //Calculate the total score var TotalScore = 0; for (i=0; i'; } Output += YourScoreIs + ' ' + TotalScore + '%.
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