Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT

Steve Higgins is Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Nick Packard is an Educational ICT Consultant.

• Introduction: Welcome to your teaching career Section 1: Your ICT skills, knowledge and understanding 1. Auditing your own skills and understanding ICT capability 2. Text, pictures and multimedia 3. Managing and understanding information 4. Communicating with and through ICT 5. What does the research say? Section 2: ICT and teaching in the classroom 6. ICT for literacy and English 7. ICT for numeracy and mathematics 8. ICT for science 9. ICT across the curriculum 10. ICT in the foundation stage 11. ICT and thinking skills Section 3: ICT and your own professional learning 12. Managing your professional responsibilities with ICT 13. Becoming a reflective practitioner 14. Applying for jobs and coping with interviews

'The first part is well thought out: it doesn't merely describe what different kinds of software do, but provides a framework for thinking about ICT in the context of teaching...The book is an ambitious project, seeking to combine an academic approach with practical guidance, at the same time remaining readable. It succeeds.' - both Terry Freedman in TES, 27th May 2005