uLearn has been designed to make teaching and learning more visual, more exciting and more productive.
How can you use uLearn in your classroom? There are so many different ways, each designed to suit a different class organisation and teaching style. You can:
Use uLearn's maps and resources on a whiteboard as a whole-class introduction. The annotation tool allows you to add text, comments or key learning points. Drag-and-drop icons (numbers, arrows, etc) let you highlight key places.
Organise the children into groups of two or three and let them research together, reporting their findings back to the class.
Allow the pupils to continue a task started in the classroom as homework. Ask them to create a uLearn Playlist of the resources and views they have found. Ask them to develop this further by uploading their own Word files or pictures. This can make a spectacular presentation to the rest of the class.
uLearn, because it is so rich in map, aerial and web resources, is the ideal tool to enable gifted and talented pupils to develop their higher order thinking and communication skills.
Of course, all of the above will get noticed by parents who will be amazed at the facilities the school is now able to provide.
From the teacher's point of view, as well as providing increased resources, uLearn reduces their workload. There is now so much information on the web, uLearn can save hours of time trawling through the millions of resources thrown up by general search engines because it provides direct access to materials specifically and solely intended for teaching and learning.
uLearn contains resources for every curriculum area. In particular uLearn is an important tool for history, citizenship, PSHE, and art and design teaching.
However, you will see that the curriculum information provided in these pages is principally focused on geography. This is because GIS and OS mapping is so frequently required to address the geography curriculum.
Teachers use uLearn in ways that are the most appropriate for them. Often this starts by simply using the maps, then exploring the resources created by others, followed by creating their own resources and finally having pupils create and publish resources themselves.
