Issues in Teaching Using ICT

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.

Marilyn Leask

Part 1 Political and philosophical issues; Chapter 1 Electronic professional networks for teachers, Marilyn Leask; Chapter 2 Connecting schools and pupils: To what end?, Norbert Pachler; Chapter 3 The Virtual Community of Teachers, Niki Davis; Chapter 4 ICFT: Information, communication and friendship technology, Lawrence Williams; Chapter 5 What stops teachers using new technology?, Lyn Dawes; Part 2 Implications for teaching approaches and pupil learning; Chapter 6 The role of the teacher, Michelle Selinger; Chapter 7 Setting authentic tasks using the internet in schools, Michelle Selinger; Chapter 8 Special educational needs issues and ICT, Glendon (Ben) Franklin; Chapter 9 Videoconferencing across the curriculum, Lawrence Williams; Chapter 10 Creating and maintaining the school website, Alastair Wells; Chapter 11 Key Skills and the post 16 curriculum, Phil Langshaw, Richard Millwood; Chapter 12 Making and using multimedia, Steve Bruntlett; Part 3 Wider issues for the educational community; Chapter 13 Intranets, Darren Leafe; Chapter 14 Lifelong learning in the electronic age, Christina Preston; Chapter 15 Developing a 'cognitively flexible literacy', Sarah Younie; Chapter 16 Building on-line communities for teachers, Marilyn Leask, Sarah Younie;