Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Primary School introduces teachers to the range of ways in which ICT can be used to support and extend the teaching and learning opportunities in their classrooms. Chapters cover areas such as: literacy, numeracy, science, and their relationship with ICT; managing curriculum projects using ICT; creating and using multimedia applications. Ideas and activities for teachers to try are based on tried and tested methods from innovative schools around the UK and abroad. Practising teachers and students will find this an invaluable guide on how to work together to extend their skills and knowledge in the area of ICT.
Author(s): Marilyn Leask
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
A Note to Readers......Page 17
Why use ICT? JOHN MEADOWS AND MARILYN LEASK......Page 18
Reading and Writing with ICT RAY BARKER, GLEN FRANKLIN AND JOHN MEADOWS......Page 37
Extending Talking and Reasoning Skills Using ICT LYN DAWES, NEIL MERCER AND RUPERT WEGERIF......Page 56
Creativity, Visual Literacy and ICT AVRIL LOVELESS WITH TERRY TAYLOR......Page 82
Mathematics and ICT HAMISH FRASER......Page 98
Science and Environmental Issues and ICT JOHN MEADOWS......Page 114
History and ICT JOHN SAMPSON......Page 129
First Steps in Organising ICT in the Primary Classroom JOHN POTTER......Page 141
Creating and Using Multimedia Applications JANE MITRA......Page 161
Managing Curriculum Projects Using ICT DARREN LEAFE......Page 179
Talking to the World through Video, Sound and Text GORDON JAMES......Page 196
Undertaking an ICT Self-Audit LYN DAWES AND MARILYN LEASK......Page 212
Networking People and Computers JOHN MEADOWS WITH KEN MILLAR......Page 229
Linking Home and School Use MARILYN LEASK AND NORBERT PACHLER WITH RAY BARKER AND GLEN FRANKLIN......Page 247
Appendix Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology in Subject Teaching......Page 266
Index......Page 283