Medicine and ICT Lesson Ideas

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This worksheet asks questions about the use of ICT in medicine.

News story research task

This worksheet asks students to research recent news stories about this topic that have been reported on in the news.

Students are asked to read at least two current news stories, answer a set of questions and then report their findings back to the class.

A useful task ensure that students gain an understanding of the use of ICT in a real life context

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Fill in the gaps

Students are given a piece of text with a number of key words removed. The key words appear in a table above the text. They need to replace the words correctly back into the text.

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How technology has changed hospitals

This worksheet asks students to make a comparison between how things were done prior to technology and how they are now done using technology.

They are also asked to consider the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

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What am I?

Students are given descriptions related to this topic and asked to identify what is being referred to.

Post-it notes

This worksheet asks students to write a brief set of notes for themselves onto 'post-it notes' about the use of ICT in medicine.

Agony Aunt

Students are put into the role of an agony aunt who has to answer a set of letters about technology related problems.

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