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Page 3: How it used to be
Here are some other changes that have happened in the school environment due to new ICT technology
Prior to ICT |
With ICT |
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Dinner money used to be sent into school each week
as cash, in small brown envelopes. |
Nowadays, many schools use swipe cards. Students
use a machine to 'load' up their card with money and use this at the
till to pay for their food. |
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| You would be warned that it was the end of break or dinnertime by a teacher ringing a hand bell. | Most schools now use electronic bells which are on an automatic timer to tell you about the end of lessons and breaks. |
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| When letters needed to be sent home, the school secretary would have to type them individually. Any mistakes meant that they would have to be retyped from scratch. | All letters, reports and documents are now created using a computer. Any mistakes can be corrected immediately. |
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| All student records used to be stored in paper files and kept safe inside a filing cabinet. | Most schools are now using electronic Management Information Systems. They can search for a student using the computer and find out all of the relevant details in a matter of seconds. |
Challenge see if you can find out one extra fact on this topic that we haven't already told you
Click on this link: Record Keeping Systems
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