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ICT: Changing Education

by Chris Abbott. 130 pgs.

Contributors:

   Chris Abbott

Publisher:

   Routledge Falmer

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  2000

Subjects:

Computer-Assisted Instruction--Social Aspects, Internet In Education--Social Aspects, Educational Technology--History

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

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