Teaching Primary School Literacy with ICT
Moira Monteith(Editor)
Open University Press
Published on 1. October 2002
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-335-21047-3 (ISBN)
Description
Does the use of ICT benefit primary school children in learning to be literate today? How does the use of ICT affect literacy? Which teaching and learning practices are most effective when seeking to promote literacy goals through the use of ICT? This important new text seeks to support school teachers in developing children's literacy skills through the use of information and communication technology. The editor and contributors indicate where we are at present and where we may be going in terms of learning literacy using ICT, basing their findings on research evidence and their own extensive experience in education. Its features include: specific chapters deal with literacy learning in schools; national literacy strategies as exemplified within the National Literacy Programme; the effectiveness of software; connections with oracy; and the use of the internet. Whilst the contributors note that ICT has much to offer in terms of providing valuable support to learners, they also stress that the context where this learning takes place is vitally important and that technology alone can never take the place of good classroom practice.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-21047-3 (9780335210473)
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Person
Moira Monteith is currently an educational consultant and was previously a principal lecturer in ICT in Education at Sheffield Hallam University and before that a teacher. She has written and edited a number of books concerned with the use of ICT and with writing and was co-editor of the Literacy Pack produced by MAPE, an association concerned with the use of ICT in primary schools. Her research has included the observation of word processing stages by children in reception and the first years of schooling.
Content
IntroductionWhat has ICT got to do with literacy?Raising achievement in literacy through ICTA reflective view of the English National Literacy StrategyJoint attentionadults and children playing with computersTalking solutionsthe role of oracy in the effective use of ICTICT and readingwhat can software do?Computer support for reading developmentPopular culture, computer games and the primary literacy curriculumTalking stories, textoids and dialogic readingSoftware in actionChildren, literacy and the world wide webhow children access and manipulate information from the internet to support their learningVisual literacyfrom picture books to electronic textsIndex.