Transforming teaching and learning: embedding ICT into everyday classroom practices...information and communications technology (ICT)

Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this paper describes how teams of teachers and researchers have developed ways of embedding information and communications technology (ICT) into everyday classroom practices to enhance learning. The focus is on teaching and learning across a range of subjects: Engli...

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Published in:	Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 413 - 426
Main Authors:	Sutherland R, Armstrong V, Barnes S, Brawn R, Breeze N, Gall M, Matthewman S, Olivero F, Taylor A, Triggs P, Wishart J, John P
Format:	tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2004
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this paper describes how teams of teachers and researchers have developed ways of embedding information and communications technology (ICT) into everyday classroom practices to enhance learning. The focus is on teaching and learning across a range of subjects: English, history, geography, mathematics, modern foreign languages, music and science. The influence of young people's out-of-school uses of ICT on in-school learning is discussed. The creative tension between idiosyncratic and institutional knowledge construction is emphasised and we argue that this is exacerbated by the use of ICT in the classroom.