Key Skills Resources for learning, practicing and applying skills

 

Key Skills Resources for learning, practicing and applying skills General Communication Application of Number ICT Working with others Problem Solving Improving own learning and performance General Tools Evaluation

General

•   Raise your Game! A great site for introducing key skills and demonstrating how important skills are in all parts of life.  Although the site has a sports emphasis it has been used with many different types of students.   www.bbc.co.uk/wales/raiseyourgame

•   Key Skills standards and example portfolios QCA - Qualifications and curriculum authority. http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_6444.aspx

•   BBC Key Skills:  includes tutorials, projects  and interactive activities for all 6 key skills http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/index.shtml

•   National Grid for Learning Cymru:  Key Skills Resources

 

Communication

•    Key skills Trainer.  Check your skills, Learn, and Practice speaking, reading and writing skills.   www.keyskills4u.com

•    BBC Skillswise.  The best place to develop literacy skills. Includes teaching, games, quizes, stories and much more for grammar, spelling, reading, writing and listening  http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/

•    Teaching English as a second language.  British Council and BBC site: Teaching English.  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/  Think (ideas on teaching), Talk (feedback and communities) Try (tips         and lesson plans) and much more, 

•       Interactive learning resources for Scottish Core Skills Communication  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/communication.asp

•    Radio Waves.  Student Radio stations where students can apply their writing and speaking skills.  www.radiowaves.co.uk/

•    Reading, writing. Learning for Life:   http://www.learningforlife.org.uk/

•    Freevlog:  Everything you need to get started in Videoblogging. could be useful for communication (speaking, writing)  http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/category/tutorial/

 

Application of Number

•    Key skills Trainer. Check your skills, Learn and Practice number skills. www.keyskills4u.com

•    BBC Skillswise. Whole numbers; measures, shape and space; fractions, decimals and percentages; and handling data http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/

•    Interactive learning resources for Scottish Core Skills Numeracy. http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/numeracy.asp

•    Survey monkey;  especially good for conducting surveys as part of Application of Number activities.  http://www.surveymonkey.com/

 

ICT

•    Key skills Trainer (student website) www.keyskills4u.com

•   Interactive learning resources for Scottish Core Skills ICT (PC) http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/itforpc.asp (Mac) http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/itformac.asp

•   Wise kids:  Promoting positive and safe Internet use.   http://www.wisekids.org.uk/index.htm

•   ICT tutorial:  http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/ict

 

Working with others

•    Interactive learning resources for Scottish Core Skills Working with others http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/wwo.asp

•    Try a wiki for planning group work.  Watch the you tube video:  Wikis in plain english.  Shows how to plan a camping trip with friends using wiki's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

 

Problem Solving

•    Interactive learning resources for Scottish Core Skills Problem Solving.  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/coreskills/problemsolving.asp

•    Guide to Action:  Toolkit for organising discussion groups and action projects.  From Taking IT global.  http://www.takingitglobal.org/action/guide/

•    Search for Common Ground.  resources to use in conflict resolution.  http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/humanity/programmes_humanity.html

•    Tutorial on problem based learning.  Good background information http://ed.fnal.gov/trc/tutorial/index.html

 

Improving own learning and performance

•    BBC Key Skills:  includes tutorials, projects  and interactive activities for Improving own learning and performance http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/widerks/index.shtml

 

General

•    Key Skills Support Programme Cymru  Main site:  www.dysg.org.uk/   E-dysg professional development: http://www.e-dysg.org.uk/english/

•    Project based learning:  iEARN UK.  Example: One world – Sustainability and global citizenship

•    Shelter Cymru www.sheltercymru.org.uk

•    Capture Wales (PSE) www.bbc.co.uk/wales/capturewales

•    Young Enterprise Wales www.young-enterprise.org.uk

•    Duke of Edinburgh’s Award http://www.theaward.org

•    Collaborative music through internet www.dbass.org

•    Virtual training suite www.vts.intute.ac.uk

•    Uganda digital education resource bank http://www.uderb.org/

•    Bucks Institute.  Project based learning resources for professional development, handbook and reserach http://www.bie.org/

•    Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification (WBQ) resources: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/wbq-home/wbq-resources-home.htm

•    National Grid for Learning - Cymru (NGFL) key skills: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home.htm

 

Tools

• Moodle (main site)  tutorial play ground:  How to moodle
• Blogging:  Edublog for teachers, Blogger
• Educational Wiki's,  Wetpaint,  PB wiki
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Evaluation

Evaluation of key skills teaching:  student, teacher and employer perspectives.  Univ of Nottingham, UK, 2004 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/search/keyword/49/evaluatx215/