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Shaping Learner Landscapes is a project set up by North Tyneside School Improvement Service to allow schools to explore enquiry based learning over an extended period of time supported by ICT.

This case study looks at one particular Shaping Learner Landscapes project with Norham Community Technology College’s Y7 history students.

Hypotheses explored included:

• Enquiry based learning, supported by ICT over an extended period of time improves learner skills dramatically!
• Free, easy to access 24/7 ICT tools aid understanding, creativity, communication and
• engagement.
• Student understanding and skills are deepened by utilising extended periods of time.

The students worked in groups of four to explore whether evacuation was successful by answering an open-ended question. They used a range of online tools to help them research and collaborate to produce a presentation as their response to the question.
Students then assessed each other's presentations.

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