Information and Communications Technology in Primary Schools: Children or Computers in Control? [Paperback]

This new edition takes into account advances in software and technology such as interactive whiteboards and digital cameras, focusing upon how these new resources can be most effectively used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom.Providing the fundamental background information to put ICT develpoments into a classroom context, the book looks at at what can be learned from the latest national research into ICT use in the classroom and provides a wide range of classroom activities.The book should be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduates Primary education students, INSET participants, ICT coordinators and senior managers.Why all this concern about ICT?; Teaching and learning with ICT; The management of ICT in the primary school; Assessment, reporting and recording; Children in control of the computer; The computer in control of the child; ICT and the core subjects of the National Curriculum; ICT and the foundation subjects of the National Curriculum; ICT and Foundation Stage; ICT and Inclusion.Provides the reader with the information required to make important decisions concerning how they provide, and to what extent they use, information technology in the classroom.USCopyright ? Richard Ager 2003