New Tools for Learning: accelerated learning meets ICT [Paperback]

A blueprint for ICT as it becomes a transformational tool for learning


What's happening now in the area of ICT and learning?
How can you make the most of the new tools at your disposal?
How can you match the tools to the learning needs?
How do you bring everyone on board for change?
Our knowledge of the brain and how we learn is developing - and ICT offers the ideal tools to support many of the key principles behind the theory. Step by step, author and Guardian columnist John Davitt explains how you can make the most of this opportunity.
This book outlines 5 practical, whole-school ICT projects that will inspire staff and pupils alike. With tips and ideas for masses more exciting ICT projects that apply across the curriculum.

This is a book for every staffroom... it is wholeheartedly reaffirming; learning can be this good; technology can be this challenging! Professor Stephen Heppell, Director of the National College of Ireland's Learn3K research unit

The use of ICT in all its forms will have a dramatic and catalytic role to play in the learning revolution - especially as we learn more about the subtle interplay between hearing, seeing and doing in the learning process. John Davitt