Educational Resources and Student Development: A Report

This report examines the critical role of educational resources for student development, particularly for students aged 13-18 at Camestone School in the UK. The report emphasizes the significance of various resources, including PowerPoint presentations, educational games, workshop plans, poster sets, web pages, and audio/video productions. It highlights how these resources enhance learning, promote engagement, and develop essential skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. The report concludes that the availability and integration of these resources are vital for fostering student growth and preparing them for future success. The report references several books and journals to support its claims, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media and other digital
asserts which are useful for teaching, learning and assessing as well as for research purposes
(Orr, Rimini and Damme, 2015). In this present report, the importance of educational resources
for Camestone School in UK especially for age group 13 to 18 years. It is located in Kempston,
Bedford.
MAIN BODY
Educational resources are very important for the growth and development of students.
Teaching without resources is trying to cooking dish without ingredient. It is very important for
schools to provide knowledge of power point presentation, games, workshop plans, poster sets,
web pages and audio or video productions. These resources play a very important role in the
development and growth of student. These resources play a critical role for the age group of 13
to 18 years because it is the growing age in which student learn and acquire knowledge.
Power pint presentation are created by using Microsoft word and it contains individual
slides of the notes or content (Clements, Pawlowski and Manouselis, 2015). It enables teachers
to raise the quality of written material as well as visual they present to the student in class. In
power point presentation only main or important points are discussed which help students to gain
knowledge about the topic and which result in raising awareness among this age group.
Camestone School include power point presentation learning in there teaching. This type of
teaching directly gain the attention of students because of creativity. Teacher also use projectors
in presenting power point slides so that students can learn in more better manner.
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Games in education is also very important for increasing leaning capacity and interest of
students especially for the age group of 13 to 18 years (Muñoz-Merino and et.al., 2015). Games
are designed for the intention of educating students by raising there self learning skill as well as
problem solving skills. Further, Camestone School should include game base learning in there
teaching as it allows students collaboration, effective communication and team working. On the
other hand, games are also very important for schools to included because games develops
various skills such as thinking, creativity and good sportsmanship. Games is also essential in
maintaining healthy body, soul and mind.
Workshop plans are also called as child centred approach. Teaching is workshop allows
teacher to enjoy the advantageous of small group teaching (Hilton, 2016). Small group learning
is very benefited for the student as it allows collaborating as well as communicate in very
effective way. By this teaching style, student of age group 13 to 18 years develop inter personal
skills, listening skills, verbal communications etc. and these skills are very important for further
growth and development of the career of the students. Thus, Camestone School of UK should
also include this type of learning so that it developed multidimensional skills. For example,
creating a workshop for raising environmental awareness among students.
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Poster sets are big size picture which are printed and are used for decoration. In today's
modern teaching styles, there arr many teachers who are using tool which makes it easier for
teachers to emphasize on what is actually matters. Posters are designed to engage students of age
group 13 to 18 years in learning as these are eye catching tool (Kamvar and et.al., 2017). Poster
is short but it makes the clear picture about what is the actual message. For example, posters are
designed for raising awareness about the causes of smoking and alcohol consumption.
Web pages are the hypertext document which are connected to the world wide web. It is
very important that students have this resources in there education so that they could get better
access informations about the particular topic. It brings improvement in the knowledge and skills
of students. Camestone School of UK should also include this type of learning so that they can
raise the effectiveness of learning through raising information from web pages (Butcher, 2015).
Audio or video productions is also one of the advance technology which helps to raise the
awareness of education among the age group of 13 to 18 years. Students will understand in better
way if teaching is provided by audio or video techniques because the world is highly digitalised.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is clearly understood that for raising awareness among the
students of age group 13 to 18 years educational resources are very important. Power point
presentation is one of the best way to learn and acquire knowledge about the particular topics.
Teaching without education resources are not useful for development of student careers.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Butcher, N., 2015. A basic guide to open educational resources (OER). Commonwealth of
Learning (COL);.
Clements, K., Pawlowski, J. and Manouselis, N., 2015. Open educational resources repositories
literature review–Towards a comprehensive quality approaches framework. Computers in human
behavior, 51, pp.1098-1106.
Hilton, J., 2016. Open educational resources and college textbook choices: a review of research
on efficacy and perceptions. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(4), pp.573-
590.
Kamvar, Z.N and et.al., 2017. Developing educational resources for population genetics in R: an
open and collaborative approach. Molecular ecology resources, 17(1), pp.120-128.
Muñoz-Merino, P.J and et.al.,2015. Precise Effectiveness Strategy for analyzing the
effectiveness of students with educational resources and activities in MOOCs. Computers in
Human Behavior, 47, pp.108-118.
Orr, D., Rimini, M. and Damme, D.V., 2015. Open educational resources: A catalyst for
innovation.
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