`A valuable resource for all primary practitioners. This covers everything from turning on the computer, to the history of Government funding for ICT...I would recommend this as a valuable addition to staffroom resources and a friendly and accessible reference for trainee teachersβ² - TES website `I
Using I.T. in Primary School History
β Scribed by Lez Smart
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 145
- Series
- Children, Teachers and Learning Series
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The UK National Curriculum requires children to develop an IT capability through the different subject areas. This book for non-IT specialists aims to help humanities teachers use IT to enhance and facilitate children's learning. The author considers how children's historical and geographical knowledge, skills and understanding can be better developed through use of IT, and how their IT capability can be developed in this context.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor's Foreword......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
For the American Reader......Page 12
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1. History and Information Technology in the Primary School: How We Got to Where We Are......Page 18
2. Victorian Britain: A Local Study......Page 40
3. Invaders and Settlers......Page 65
4. Life in Tudor Times......Page 93
5. Classroom Considerations......Page 120
P......Page 144
Z......Page 145
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