The Essential Guide to ICT

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-335-24619-9
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

This book provides a baseline for effective ICT practice, offering comprehensive coverage of the field as well as a critically informed overview of the research which informs practice. The book provides an overview of research in the field and its application. It brings together the findings from a range of research projects as well as highlighting effective practice. It provides an understanding of how technologies can and should impact upon the processes of learning and inform pedagogical approaches.

This book is for busy teachers, practitioners and students who wish to gain an overview of the key issues pertaining to technology and education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Younie, Sarah

Leask, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein E-Learning
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik E-Learning, Bildungstechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: History

Integrating Technology in Classrooms: from the microcomputer to ‘the cloud’

Education Policy and the Rationale for Technology Development in Schools: political drivers

Part Two: The Contemporary Context

Effective Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning: interactive whiteboards

Emerging Practice with Games Based Learning

Teachers, Pedagogy and Professional Development

Whole School Development, Change and Leadership

Key Classroom Principles: across and within subjects and key stages

Part Three: Futures

Curriculum and Personalising Learning

Resources: human capital, time and space for schools of the future

21stC Educational Practice: research, evidence and knowledge management

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sarah Younie is Principal Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University. She has experience in school teaching, higher education, national and international research projects. She is chair of the national professional association ITTE (Information Technology in Teacher Education).

Marilyn Leask is Professor of Education at Brunel University. She has held posts in higher education, schools, local and central government and has extensive experience in teaching and national and international research around the use of ICT. Moreover, she has worked on innovative projects to harness the use of ICT to support professional development for more than twenty years.