Information Technology

1. Considering the integration of information and communication technologies within subject teaching and within teaching methodologies

   1. Integrating graphing technology into teacher education: a case study of an algebra program for prospective secondary school mathematics teachers

      • Beverly J. Ferrucci, Jack A. Carter

      Pages 254-259

   2. Software evaluation as a focus for teacher education

      • David Squires

      Pages 260-266

2. Cognition and the integration of information and communication technology uses for the pupil

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267

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   2. Towards effective learning with new technology resources: the role of teacher education in reconceptualising the relationship between task setting and student learning in technology-rich classrooms

      • Bridget Somekh

      Pages 269-277

   3. The electronic spreadsheet and cognitive skills in inquiry oriented biology

      • Amos Dreyfus, Benjamin Feinstein, Janet Talmon

      Pages 278-284

   4. Computer science education based on fundamental ideas

      • Andreas Schwill

      Pages 285-291

3. The increasing need for focus upon cultural and social factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. Understanding our instrument of representation

      • Mfcheál Ó Dúill

      Pages 295-301

   3. Training for information technology use in traditional and futuristic schools

      • Alnaaz Kassam, Ronald C. Ragsdale

      Pages 302-307

   4. The computer as a toy and tool in the home - implications for teacher education

      • Toni Downes

      Pages 309-315

4. Future scenarios and the challenges they offer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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   2. Teachers and teacher education facing information and communication technologies

      • Bernard Cornu

      Pages 319-326

   3. Converging technologies in teacher education: key issues, key competencies

      • Paul Nicholson, George Duckett

      Pages 327-333

   4. Learning to teach at a distance: exploring the role of electronic communication

      • Michelle Selinger

      Pages 334-340

   5. Research on telematics for teacher education

      • Antonio J. Osorio

      Pages 341-348

   6. What expertise do teachers require to facilitate pupils’ self-expression with multimedia

      • Hiroyuki Tanaka

      Pages 349-355

   7. Reports from the Focus Groups

      • Don Passey, Brian Samways

      Pages 357-374

5. Back Matter

   Pages 375-382

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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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