What do our past experiences of using ICT for teaching and learning tell us?

David Benzie, Vicky Cartwright, Michael Hammond, Sarah Younie and John Woollard.

This is a project to look into into the experiences of teacher educators who have engaged with developing the use of ICT in school and teacher education. The aim is to give voice to the achievements and concerns of these colleagues during the short history of ICT in school. We wanted to:

• draw attention to initiatives which have been more successful than others and highlight the factors leading to their success

• highlight particular difficulties associated with developing ICT

• report on the factors which have provoked and sustained engagement with the development of ICT

• examine the role of ITTE and other professional groups in supporting innovation with ICT

• compare and contrast the present with the past ‘landscape’ regarding the use of ICT

Interviews

We held 15 in depth interviews which were coded, placed into categories, themed and sub themed.

We have:

• Presented a work in progress session at ITTE conference, Cambridge, 2007

• Presented a paper at Singapore on Redesigning Pedagogy (Redesigning Pedagogy, Culture, Knowledge and Understanding Conference. 28th – 30th May 2007. National Institute of Education , Singapore)
• Written an overview book: What does the past tell us about computers in education?) - downloadable on the sub page
• Fed back on the project at the ITTE conference, Cambridge, November 2008.