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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.

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

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