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Initial Project Summary
The project will examine the ways in which new technologies can
be used in educational settings to enhance learning. The research
centres around the design and evaluation of longitudinal teaching
and learning initiatives using new technologies such as computers
within the areas of English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities, Modern
Foreign Languages and Music. It is also concerned with learning
which cuts across traditional subject disciplines and with the contexts
and conditions that best support these initiatives. It will investigate
the relationship between home and school use of new technologies
such as computers by learners and teachers.
The research is a partnership between teachers, researchers, teacher
educators and managers, working across the primary, secondary and
FE sectors. The first phase will focus on the collaborative design
and refinement of teaching and learning initiatives and the development
of research instruments. Rigorous research and evaluation of learning
which emanates from the designed initiatives will follow, taking
into account the wider influences on the learning and organisational
context. The project will analyse similarities and differences between
subjects in both teaching practices and students' approaches to
learning through new technologies.
A major outcome will be to identify the ways in which research
and the systematic use of evidence can be transformed and developed
to be of value to teachers and learners. The findings will be communicated
by researchers and teachers to a wide range of people who can use
them to enhance practice in teaching and learning through ICT. |
