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The Challenge Ahead: Information Technology in the Primary School Curriculum book cover

1st Edition

The Challenge Ahead Information Technology in the Primary School Curriculum

Edited By Joyce I. Fields Copyright 1993
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge
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The information technology (IT) revolution brought unprecedented opportunities to primary teaching. The communications explosion in the outside world rendered the ability to handle large amounts of information, the most crucial of life skills. However, the use of microcomputers in the classroom had been haphazard, and the introduction of IT requirements to the National Curriculum at the time... Read more

Preface

1. The role of information technology in support of primary perspective
Joyce I. Fields

2. Multimedia in the primary learning environment: the challenge ahead
Stephen Heppell

3. The release of trapped intelligence: use of technology with communication impaired children
David F. Sewell

4. Information technology capability and the primary school
Peter Avis

5. Information technology for pupils with special educational needs
Michael H. Wright

6. Information technology and childhood
Derek Allen

7. Information technology in the primary school curriculum: the Humberside response
Kathleen Guthrie

8. A school census—a computer-based exercise in data collection and analysis by primary children
Michael A. Bortoft

9. “1588”—an approach utilising information technology
Joyce I. Fields

10. Music technology with pupils with severe learning difficulties
Rod Buckle

11. “Movement”: a science curriculum file supported by information technology
Alison Drage

12. Through the Looking Glass
Joyce I. Fields

Appendices

a. Information handling, information technology throughout the national curriculum

b. Software publishing houses: names and addresses

c. Notes on contributors

Biography

Joyce I. Fields

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