1st Edition

Language, Classrooms and Computers

Edited By Peter Scrimshaw Copyright 1993
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential not just to support the achievement of conventional goals, but also to redefine what we mean by reading, writing and discussion. The contributors to Language, Classroom and Computers - all with experience of teaching about language and computers for The Open University - use teachers' accounts together... Read more
Part I: Computers in context 1 Teachers, learners and computers 2 Theories of learning and information technology 3 Computer-based activities in classroom contexts 4 Collaborative learning with computers 5 The teacher’s role 6 Access to learning: problems and policies Part II: Computers and language development 7 Software: an underestimated variable? 8 Cooperative writing with computers 9 Communicating through computers in the classroom 10 Text completion programs 11 Computer-based approaches to second language learning 12 Reading, writing and hypertext 13 Researching the electronic classroom

Biography

Peter Scrimshaw

`This book is an excellent and thought provoking read - Neil Stanley, Computer Education (June 94)