IT for Learning Enhancement (Book)

Edited by Moira Monteith

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 

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