Full Description
Written for student teachers learning to teach in primary and secondary schools and newly qualified teachers, this book has been designed to engage with a wide range of issues related to ICT teaching. It presents key debates that teachers will need to understand, reflect on and engage in as part of their professional development. Chapters highlight major questions, consider the evidence from theory and practice and arrive at possible answers. Building on their learning about teaching using ICT on ITT courses, this book will encourage students and newly qualified teachers to consider and reflect on issues so that they can make reasoned and informed judgements about their teaching.
Issues discussed include :
the background to developments in the UK
the globalisation of teachers using technology
the role of the teacher
teacherless classrooms
a whole school approach to using ICT
creativity
visual literacy and ICT
school websites and opportunities for lifelong learning in the community.
Contents
1. The background to developments in the UK 2. Connecting schools and pupils to what end? 3. The Globalisation of Education 4. Teachers using technology 5. What does the average child need to know? 6. The role of the teacher: teacherless classrooms 7. Possibilities for change: a philosophical whole school approach to using ICT for teaching and learning 8. Creativity, Visual Literacy and ICT 9. SEN Issues in ICT 10. Making and Using Multimedia: A Critical Examination of Learning Opportunities 11. Videoconferencing: an expensive gimmick? 12. School Website a luxury or a necessity? 13. Opportunities for Lifelong learning in the community: does the school have a role and a responsibility? 14. Structures, ownership and purposes of electronic networks: the relationships between providers and users.
