Issues in Teaching Using ICT (Issues in Subject Teaching.)

✍ Scribed by Marilyn Leask

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction to the series......Page 18
Foreword......Page 20
Preface......Page 22
Acknowledgements......Page 24
Political and philosophical issues......Page 26
Electronic professional networks for teachers: political issues MARILYN LEASK......Page 28
Connecting schools and pupils: to what end? Issues related to the use of ICT in school-based learning NORBERT PACHLER......Page 40
The Virtual Community of Teachers: 'power stations' for learners nationwide? NIKI DAVIS......Page 56
ICFT: Information, Communication and Friendship Technology: philosophical issues relating to the use of ICT in school settings LAWRENCE WILLIAMS......Page 74
What stops teachers using new technology? LYN DAWES......Page 86
Implications for teaching approaches and pupil learning......Page 106
The role of the teacher: teacherless classrooms? MICHELLE SELINGER......Page 108
Setting authentic tasks using the internet in schools MICHELLE SELINGER......Page 121
Special educational needs issues and ICT GLENDON (BEN) FRANKLIN......Page 130
Videoconferencing across the curriculum LAWRENCE WILLIAMS......Page 141
Creating and maintaining the school website meaningless task or educational activity luxury or necessity? ALASTAIR WELLS......Page 155
Key skills in the post 16 curriculum an innovative approach PHILIP LANGSHAW AND RICHARD MILLWOOD......Page 168
Making and using multimedia: a critical examination of learning opportunities STEVE BRUNTLETT......Page 183
Wider issues for the educational community......Page 204
Intranets: Developing a learning community DARREN LEAFE......Page 206
Lifelong learning in the electronic age CHRISTINA PRESTON......Page 215
Developing a 'cognitively flexible literacy': from an industrial society to the information age SARAH YOUNIE......Page 231
Building on-line communities for teachers: issues emerging from research MARILYN LEASK AND SARAH YOUNIE......Page 248
Author Index......Page 258
Subject Index......Page 261