Resources for ICT Functional Skills

This quote from the QCA demonstrates an important aspect of understanding ICT functional skills - and is relevant when considering resources:

It is essential to think of learners becoming functional with their ICT , rather than thinking that there is a vital body of knowledge known as “Functional Skills”.

It’s also useful to consider that the assessment of functional skills requires your students to achieve a relatively high pass mark; high enough that they must demonstrate their ability to function in all the different areas of the ICT functional skills curriculum to achieve it - even when they are presented with questions set in very unfamiliar contexts.

What that means in practice in the classroom is … practice!

The guroo service provides you and your students with a wide variety of functional skills resources for ICT at level 1 and level 2:

• We set functional ICT learning challenges in a variety of different relevant, real-life scenarios, specifically designed to help your students practice their functional ICT skills in different ways
• Modern media like podcasts and vodcasts to engage even reluctant learners
• Practice questions and tests for functional ICT
• Learning tasks and interactive activities

It all adds up to some 90 hours of learning activity across English, maths and ICT.

Delivered as an online service, guroo includes multimedia and flash-based activities suitable for delivery on whiteboards and in ICT suites as well as anytime, anywhere with internet access.

But your colleagues who are less “ICT confident” will appreciate that the guroo service includes functional skills that are not purely online, including printed tutor packs with lesson plans and all the printable and photocopiable materials.

The functional ICT lesson plans include versions you can use in a typical classroom or in an ICT suite.

… and the guroo service includes our “beyond training” Active Engagement Plan where our educational consultants work with you to integrate and embed functional skills in your ICT classes.

Want to know more? Contact us to arrange a demonstration or for a sample CD.

Can’t wait for the disc? You can download these free resources for functional ICT today!