Information Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Reflections and futures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Vygotsky, informatics capability, and professional development

      • Jim Ridgway

      Pages 3-19

   3. Towards building open learning communities: re-contextualising teachers and learners

      • Jan Visser, Manish Jain

      Pages 20-32

3. Aspects and concepts of change, and the implementation of innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Time for change: critical issues for teacher educators

      • Gail Marshall

      Pages 35-39

   3. Getting ready to change: the place of change theory in the information technology education of teachers

      • Brent Robinson

      Pages 40-45

   4. The U-Curve Process That Trainee Teachers Experience In Integrating Computers Into The Curriculum

      • Zemira R. Mevarech

      Pages 46-51

4. Defining the future curriculum at a national level

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Information technology capability: is our definition wide of the mark

      • David Benzie

      Pages 55-61

   3. Present role of informatics teachers in view of applications

      • Márta Turcsányi-Szabó

      Pages 62-68

   4. The TTACOS Project - laying the foundation for national technology standards for students in the United States

      • Harriet G. Taylor, Lajeane G. Thomas

      Pages 69-75

   5. A dichotomy of purpose: the effect on teachers of government initiatives in information technology

      • Deryn M. Watson

      Pages 76-83

5. Exploring potential implementation of practices for teachers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Identification of the changes in attitude and pedagogical practices needed to enable teachers to use information technology in the school curriculum

      • Margaret J. Cox

      Pages 87-94

   3. The centrality of affective variables in the implementation of a national strategy for teacher and pupil information technology suitability in elementary schools

      • Yaacov J. Katz

      Pages 95-100

   4. Informatics education as a new discipline

      • Joyce Currie Little

      Pages 101-107

   5. Issues in the preparation of teachers of programming for children

      • John Oakley, Anne McDougall

      Pages 108-114

   6. A new approach to teaching information technologies: shifting emphasis from technology to information

      • Peter Hubwieser, Manfred Broy, Wilfried Brauer

      Pages 115-121

6. Support agencies and their roles

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      Pages 123-123

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This book considers how the fundamental issues relating to the use of information technology in education, are being tackled across the world. Significantly it features international perspectives on the challenge that information and communications technology poses to teacher education; views of trainee teacher experiences with computers; insights into the ways in which communication technologies are being used to link teachers and students; consideration of the impact of change with information and communications technology; discussion of the roles of those involved in developing teacher education with information and communications techology at national, institutional and teacher levels. It contains the selected proceedings of the International Conference on Information technology: Supporting change through teacher education, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing, and held at Kiryat Anavim, Israel, in June/July 1996.

• Information Technology (IT)
• Processing
• computer
• innovation
• technology

• Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  Don Passey

• Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, UK

  Brian Samways

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