Learners today are faced with the issue of an information overload. In order to better prepare students for further studies or for work, it is not sufficient simply to teach them subject-specific knowledge in the traditional way. To truly meet the needs of students, a school should provide varied teaching and learning approaches and deliver a curriculum that is challenging, integrative, and exploratory. However, in most schools, computer skills are taught in computer classes and therefore the students learn them out-of-context (Eisenberg et al. 2004:8).
On 21 May 2003, Education Secretary Charles Clarke launched ‘fulfilling the potential’, a document clarifying the directions in which schools should be moving with ICT and e-learning, and the outcomes they should be seeking. This document sets out that ‘ICT must become an integral and natural part of the learning process. The next stage is to ensure that for all schools ICT makes a significant contribution to teaching and learning across all subjects and ages, inside and outside the curriculum’ (DFES 2003).
At NLL we are trying to address two issues: that of learning ICT as a discrete subject; and the notion that ICT should have a significant impact on the teaching and learning process.
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