Interactive Children, Communicative Teaching: ICT and Classroom Teaching (Enriching the Primary Curriculum - Child, Teacher, Context S.) - Hardcover

Cook, Deirdre; Finlayson, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335200214 ISBN 13: 9780335200214

Publisher: Open University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Why should teachers use information and communications technology (ICT) in their classroom practice? What contribution does ICT make to enhancing children's learning? How does technology fit with what teachers already know about teaching and learning and how can it be incorporated into everyday classroom experiences? This volume aims to support teachers in providing learning experiences for children through the use of information and communications technology. The focus throughout is on pedagogy and the authors draw consistently upon an educational perspective which emphasizes the socially and culturally influenced nature of learning. Interactions between teachers, children and computers are recognized as being at the heart of the learning process and practical guidance is provided as to ways in which teachers can incorporate ICT into their existing classroom practices.

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About the Author

Deirdre Cook is senior lecturer in Education at the University of Derby (since 1989) and formerly taught in both KS1 and KS2. She has a particular interest in literacy and other early semiotic activity in children such as emergent mathematics. This lead her to undertake research with Helen Finlayson on the ways in which children use computers to help them make sense of signs and symbols in mathematics and literacy.Helen Finlayson has a background in teaching and psychology. She has been researching and teaching in ICT since being a member of the Edinburgh Logo project in the early 1980s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335200214
• ISBN 13: 9780335200214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160