How to Think IT for parents

Nic

ola

Mor

ris

How to Think IT for parents

Nic

ola

Mor

ris

Playing short video extract

Every Parent Matters Proven impact on achievement

How can we contribute?

Images courtesy of James Martin (http://www.flickr.com)

The parent’s perspective: Research highlights50% worry that their child does not think about the information they find

47% believe their child to be more skilled than they are

Only 25% feel confident enough to help or supervise

The child’s perspective: Research highlights

How easy do you find research?

Comfortable

Frustrating

Struggle

and want

help

Thinking about research:

Grab and go

Accept being told it’s ok

Do you want more or less help?

HelpfulShow an interest

Knowledge and understanding Skills

Attitude and belief

Achieving parental inclusion requires:

A toolkit for support

Web

OER

LeafletJorum image courtesy of Jorum team via Flickr)

Created Resources

Trigger c

lips

Created Resources

Webquest

Infographic Presentations

Created Resources

STOP

LOOK

THINK

Directed by the crowd....“Blogging and tweeting about our fears and our mistakes...falling into the audience and trusting... we want to help each other”

adapted from Palmer (2013) Image courtesy of UsedcarSpecialist via Flickr

Think IT .... A route to inclusion

Image courtesy of Alba via flickr

Contact details and further information:

Think IT highertraining.wordpress.com

Email: nicola@highertraining.co.uk

Twitter @NicolaJMorris