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CPD budgets for teachers are also now feeling the squeeze despite this being nothing new. However, the cost of living crisis that we are all experiencing has put them into some really difficult challenges as they too struggle to pay energy bills along with a shortage of teachers and the demand for pay rises. So how can school leaders stretch their already overworked budgets?
Many teachers are told they need more ICT skills—but knowing how to use a tool doesn’t mean knowing how to teach with it. What teachers actually need is ICT capability: the ability to plan, scaffold, and assess technology use with purpose and confidence.
Through the ICT in Education Teacher Academy, teachers go beyond learning tools. They gain access to structured workshops, a powerful membership workbook, and a supportive professional community that helps them:
Integrate ICT meaningfully into curriculum
Build their own capability alongside their students' skills
Plan and reflect using a workbook aligned with APST and TPACK
Scaffold student learning in word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, coding, and more
📘 What if you stopped collecting tools—and started building the capability to teach with them confidently?
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The role that technology integration in early childhood education has in preparing young children for further education is very important in a digitally-dominated society. There are capabilities that they are expected to have learned prior to entering primary school. How you support digital play-based learning is vital to ensuring that the learning experiences foster a readiness to connect to further ICT capabilities. Learn what capabilities are required by the end of young children's four years of learning.
The ICT in Education Teacher Academy provides a comprehensive approach to enhancing communication skills in early childhood education through interactive lesson plans, effective communication strategies, and family engagement. Lesson plans such as those involving walkie-talkies, digital storytelling apps like Puppet Pals, and using keyboards for name typing help children develop verbal expression, listening, and collaborative problem-solving skills. Additionally, strategies for communication with families in early childhood education—such as using video conferencing, digital photos, and role-play tools—are integrated to strengthen family partnerships and keep families engaged in their child’s learning journey. Members gain access to structured resources, peer support, and the Success Path to adapt and extend these activities, ensuring continuous growth in both children's communication abilities and educators' professional practices.
This series explores how to incorporate technology in the elementary classroom by showing the tools teachers are already using, the strategies that make them effective, and the activities that bring lessons to life. It highlights how observation and assessment guide progress, and how true transformation occurs when technology becomes part of everyday teaching and learning. The final step reveals that lasting success depends on professional development that is ongoing, practical, and embedded in classroom practice — exactly what the ICT in Education Teacher Academy provides through the structured Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation.
If you’ve been exploring how to use technology in the classroom, this blog series has taken you step-by-step through what integration really means—why it matters, how to use it with purpose, what strategies work best, and how it transforms both teaching and learning. From understanding foundational principles to seeing classroom-ready examples, each blog builds your confidence and clarity. The next step? Turning that knowledge into action with the support, tools, and structure offered inside the ICT in Education Teacher Academy.
If you’ve ever asked yourself how to integrate ICT in the primary classroom, this series gives you the complete answer. From exploring what ICT really looks like in everyday teaching, to practical examples of tools, strategies, and real classroom applications, each part is designed to educate and give you confidence to try something new right away. Along the way, you’ll see how continual professional development — not one-off activities — is the true key to transformation. That’s why the ICT in Education Teacher Academy exists: to guide you through The Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation, a clear pathway where you build confidence, embed ICT meaningfully, and eventually lead with innovation. These blogs give you the foundation; the Academy gives you the ongoing support to turn it into lasting change for both you and your students.
There are benefits of using technology in preschool for play-based learning. Augmented reality in early childhood education adds another level of motivation and engagement in early childhood learning experiences. If you are stuck on the 'why' then read through these benefits so that you will understand that it is not there to replace physical activity but build on it and to make learning fun. Let us help you engage young children's learning now.
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