IT for Learning Enhancement (Book)
Professionals can now use Information Communications Technology (ICT) to promote effective and better learning: This shows how by presenting the essential balance between research and practice through the inclusion of case studies written by leading practitioners.
The writers are concerned to encourage the use of ICT as creatively as possible and in ways which open access as widely as possible. ICT and Learning Enhancement includes examples of current research and indicates how such evidence can be used in a practicable manner: the findings and recommendations relating to good practice are presented here in a throughly reviewed, comprehensible context.
As ICT moves into a new phase, with the majority of children soon to have a computer at home, this book
- addresses the interface of home and school,
- considers practice for young learners to establish habits, and
- examines the changes in learning approaches for students of all ages
Edition
Introduction
Moira Monteith 1
Encouraging Exploratory Talk Around Computers
Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes 10
Making Groups Work
Jean Underwood 29
Picture Information Literacy
Stephen Marcus 42
Using The Computer at Home
Toni Downes 61
The Place of Learning
Moira Monteith 79
New Writers, New Audiences, New Responses
Chris Abbott 96
The Value of Passive Software in Young Children's Collaborative Work
Helen Finlayson and Deirdre Cook 106
Children in Control
Carol Fine and Mary Lou Thornbury 121
New Ways of Telling: Multimedia Authoring in the Classroom
Bill O'Neill 141
Educational Multimedia: Where's the Interaction?
Noel Williams 153
Explorations in Virtual History
Jonathan Grove & Noel Williams 171