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Smart Classroom Professional Development Framework consists of three levels of ICT qualifications that teachers can hold, they are the ICT Certificate, the Digital pedagogics Licence and the Digital Pedagogy Licence Advanced. As a group we discussed what understandings we would need and the benefits for completing the framework, we discovered that we would need to understand that ICT could be used to parent and benefit both the learners and teachers through integration into all KLAS. As a pre service teacher undertaking the certificate our group discussion impacts on my classroom teaching by pushing for me to use more technology in my teaching to enhance the childrens learning.Reading 2 was on a Science-Sose building block about dinosaurs and discovering where they went. During a group discussion we all agreed that the teacher that wrote this unit was meticulous in planning and had thought hard as to the continuance to which she wanted technologies involved. We all found this to be a good example of a technological unit. I learnt from the group discussion as well as the reading that there is a range of different ways technology can be incorporated into a classroom unit of work. This new fellowship of more hands on activities is something that I would like to incorporate into my future classroom or practical classroom this semester.Reading 3 covers practical ideas for teachers in years 4-9. The group all agreed that theses activities were creative and recreation and ideas that we would and could include into our future senior school classrooms. There is twenty eight activities included in this reading all that could be taught anywhere from grades 4-9 and some that could be taught past this to grade 12. Some of these helpful lesson ideas will be integrated into my future classrooms. The last(a) reading for week one was practical ideas for teachers p-3, this text contained twenty eight technological activities. When discussing we all came to the same view as that of reading three that the activities were educational, fun and easily incorporated into our junior school classrooms. This article proves that learning can be fun by incorporating technology into general lessons, it also gives ideas on mediocre how to do this. By using this readings examples of lessons it will make ICT apart of most if not all of my lessons.WEEK 2Those who Understand experience Growth in TeachingIs an article about the way teaching used to be prior to and up to the year 1986.