Learning to Change [electronic resource] : ICT in Schools
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Innovation, Centre for Educational Research and.
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
Enormous investments are being made in computers and Internet connectivity for schools. The aim is to provide high-quality learning and teaching and equip young people for the knowledge society. But how are the benefits of this educational investment to be realised? It calls for much more than installing the hardware, and is not simply a matter of using ICT to do traditional things in different ways. Schools have to learn to change and to change to new ways of learning. There is an urgent need for quality software and digital materials for use in schools. Teachers - and students - must become 
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CONTENTS; Chapter 1. Policy Priorities for ICT in Schools; Why schools have to adopt ICT; The issues to be addressed in this report; Directions for policy; Chapter 2. The Curriculum and the Learner; Policy approaches towards ICT in the curriculum; ICT brings new depths to learning; Student-centred learning; Student assessment; ICT driving and facilitating change; Digital literacy - An educational policy imperative; Chapter 3. Educational Software and Digital Content; Variety of software and educational usage; Dimensions of quality; Software and digital content getting into schools
Systems for quality evaluationICT and teacher professionalism; Chapter 4. Schools and the Internet - Meeting the Challenge; Internet use in schools; Internet access and connectivity; Evaluation of educational resources on the Web; Navigation, security, misuse; Chapter 5. The Practice and Professional Development of Teachers; Teacher roles and professionalism; Teacher professional development; Teachers and ICT through the eyes of the students; Chapter 6. Schools Organised for ICT and the Homes they Serve; School organisation and leadership - A changing culture
The technical and pedagogical support infrastructureICT and relationships between the school and the home; Chapter 7. Looking to the Future; Bibliography
Enormous investments are being made in computers and Internet connectivity for schools. The aim is to provide high-quality learning and teaching and equip young people for the knowledge society. But how are the benefits of this educational investment to be realised? It calls for much more than installing the hardware, and is not simply a matter of using ICT to do traditional things in different ways. Schools have to learn to change and to change to new ways of learning. There is an urgent need for quality software and digital materials for use in schools. Teachers - and students - must become 
Education.
Educational change.
Post-communism.
Schooling for Tomorrow