Ict

by Abbott,Chris

• ISBN13: 9780750709507
• ISBN10: 0750709502
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-08
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

In this timely and accessible book, Chris Abbott examines the process by which ICT, and in particular its role in relation to literacy, has become central to national educational policies.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Series Editors' Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(3)
ICT and Literacy	4	(9)
ICT and Literacy: The Technologically Literate Teacher	5	(2)
Computers and Changing Literacy	7	(6)
Virtual Communities	13	(16)
Virtual Communities before Computers	14	(1)
Identity and Community	14	(3)
Activity	17	(1)
Newsgroups	18	(1)
Into the Dungeons	19	(2)
Young People, Virtual Communities and the Business World	21	(4)
The Arrival of Webrings: Organising the Environment	25	(4)
Changing Schools	29	(19)
School Size and Learning	30	(1)
Schools and Technology	31	(1)
Computers and Education in England - 1999-2002	32	(4)
Activity	36	(2)
The Background to this Picture	38	(3)
IT and the UK National Curriculum	41	(2)
The Rise of the Internet	43	(1)
ICT - a Subject or a Tool?	44	(1)
The Need for Change	45	(3)
Learning, Computers and Social Interaction	48	(20)
A Young IT Professional Reflects on how he Learns	49	(3)
Papert and LOGO - Alternatives to Drill and Practice	52	(2)
Activity	54	(2)
Learning in the Home	56	(6)
Activity	62	(1)
Learning through Collaboration: The Role of Technology	63	(2)
Does the Learner Need a Teacher?	65	(3)
Educational Responses to Technology	68	(20)
Technology before Computers - the Short Reign of the Teaching Machine	68	(2)
Drill and Practice Programs - the Early Years of Educational Software	70	(3)
Activity	73	(4)
The Exceptions - LOGO, Allwrite, Developing Tray and Collaboration	77	(2)
Drill and Practice Returns - the ILS Phenomenon	79	(4)
Activity	83	(1)
ICT as Tool or Teaching Machine	84	(1)
Activity	84	(4)
The Rise of the Internet and the Race to Connect	88	(20)
The Hype and the Reality	88	(1)
The Rise of the Internet	89	(3)
The Internet and Textual Devices	92	(3)
Activity	95	(1)
The Race to Connect - National Policies	95	(2)
Activity - the Seven NGfL Targets	97	(11)
Towards a New Understanding of ICT and Schools	108	(18)
ICT and National Policies - Some Current Initiatives	109	(1)
ICT Policies and the European Union	109	(2)
Activity	111	(2)
A Comparison of Two Policy Documents: The UK and Sweden	113	(3)
ICT: Changing Education? What School Might Become	116	(10)
Index	126