| Table of Contents |
| | List of Tables | ix |
| | Series Editors' Preface | xi |
| | Acknowledgements | xiii |
| | Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | ICT and Literacy | 4 |
| | | ICT and Literacy: The Technologically Literate Teacher | 5 |
| | | Computers and Changing Literacy | 7 |
| 2 | Virtual Communities | 13 |
| | | Virtual Communities before Computers | 14 |
| | | Identity and Community | 14 |
| | | Activity | 17 |
| | | Newsgroups | 18 |
| | | Into the Dungeons | 19 |
| | | Young People, Virtual Communities and the Business World | 21 |
| | | The Arrival of Webrings: Organising the Environment | 25 |
| 3 | Changing Schools | 29 |
| | | School Size and Learning | 30 |
| | | Schools and Technology | 31 |
| | | Computers and Education in England--1999-2002 | 32 |
| | | Activity | 36 |
| | | The Background to this Picture | 38 |
| | | IT and the UK National Curriculum | 41 |
| | | The Rise of the Internet | 43 |
| | | ICT--a Subject or a Tool? | 44 |
| | | The Need for Change | 45 |
| 4 | Learning, Computers and Social Interaction | 48 |
| | | A Young IT Professional Reflects on how he Learns | 49 |
| | | Papert and LOGO--Alternatives to Drill and Practice | 52 |
| | | Activity | 54 |
| | | Learning in the Home | 56 |
| | | Activity | 62 |
| | | Learning through Collaboration: The Role of Technology | 63 |
| | | Does the Learner Need a Teacher? | 65 |
| 5 | Educational Responses to Technology | 68 |
| | | Technology before Computers--the Short Reign of the Teaching Machine | 68 |
| | | Drill and Practice Programs--the Early Years of Educational Software | 70 |
| | | Activity | 73 |
| | | The Exceptions--LOGO, Allwrite, Developing Tray and Collaboration | 77 |
| | | Drill and Practice Returns--the ILS Phenomenon | 79 |
| | | Activity | 83 |
| | | ICT as Tool or Teaching Machine | 84 |
| | | Activity | 84 |
| 6 | The Rise of the Internet and the Race to Connect | 88 |
| | | The Hype and the Reality | 88 |
| | | The Rise of the Internet | 89 |
| | | The Internet and Textual Devices | 92 |
| | | Activity | 95 |
| | | The Race to Connect--National Policies | 95 |
| | | Activity--the Seven NGfL Targets | 97 |
| 7 | Towards a New Understanding of ICT and Schools | 108 |
| | | ICT and National Policies--Some Current Initiatives | 109 |
| | | ICT Policies and the European Union | 109 |
| | | Activity | 111 |
| | | A Comparison of Two Policy Documents: The UK and Sweden | 113 |
| | | ICT: Changing Education? What School Might Become | 116 |
| | Index | 126 |
