Chapter 1 Teachers, learners and computers / Peter Scrimshaw -- chapter 2 Theories of learning and information technology / Ann Jones -- chapter 3 Computer-based activities in classroom contexts / Neil Mercer -- chapter 4 Collaborative learning with computers / Paul Light -- chapter 5 The teacher's role / Eunice Fisher -- chapter 6 Access to learning: problems and policies / Eunice Fisher -- chapter 7 Software: an underestimated variable? / Peter Scrimshaw -- chapter 8 Cooperative writing with computers / Peter Scrimshaw -- chapter 9 Communicating through computers in the classroom / Bernadette Robinson -- chapter 10 Text completion programs / Peter Scrimshaw -- chapter 11 Computer-based approaches to second language learning / Diana Laurillard -- chapter 12 Reading, writing and hypertext / Peter Scrimshaw -- chapter 13 Researching the electronic classroom / Neil Mercer
Summary
The contributors use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach
