IT for Learning Enhancement

The book is particularly timely. First, IT is moving into a new
phase with regard to the latest developments in communication while
it is likely that the majority of children will soon have a computer
in the home. Second, there is now a useful foundation of research
material that can form a basis for our reflection and a
re-examination of our own practice. Consequently, this book will
address the interface of home and school in this revolutionary period
for IT, consider provision and practice for young learners when
learning habits can be established and the links between home and
school are strongest, and consider the changes in learning approaches
for older students.

The book welds research and practice, and integrates both
approaches to the use of IT through the contributors who are both
researchers and practitioners. This volume is written for teachers
who are also interested in research, IT co-ordinators in schools,
teachers and students who are following PGCE and further degree
courses, lecturers in schools and Education departments in HE.

Contents

• The value of passive software in young children's
  collaborative work
• Control Technology and the Primary Classroom
• Young Children's Responses to Control Technology
• Encouraging exploratory talk around computers
• A room for the past in the classroom for the future: using
  virtual reality to promote talk in history
• Showing and Telling: A Teacher-Researcher Project
• New writers, new audiences, new responses
• Is it possible to achieve effective collaboration'
• Using the computer at home
• Children's and parents' collaboration with computers
• Assessment of Hypertext and Multimedia Presentations
• Action, reaction and interaction: where's the learning in
  multimedia?
• Management development and IT.