This book explores the impact that new Information and Communication Technologies are having on teaching and the way children learn, addressing key issues in the UK and internationally.

Avril Loveless is a Senior Lecturer in ICT in Education at the University of Brighton., Viv Ellis is Lecturer in English Education at the University of Southampton.

Part I The Cultural Context 1. ICT, the Demise of UK Schooling and the Rise of the Individual Learner Jack Sanger 2. Selling the Digital Dream: Marketing Educational Technology to Teachers and Parents David Buckingham, Margaret Scanlon and Julian Sefton-Green 3. 'Hybrid Vigour': Reconciling the Verbal and the Visual in Electronic Communication Ilana Snyder Part II Pedagogy and ICT 4. Something Old Something New...:Is Pedagogy Affected by ICT? Avril Loveless, Glenn L Devoogd and Roy Bohlin 5. Technology as Material Culture: A Critical Pedagogy of 'Technical Literacy' Donna Lecourt 6. Science Beyond School: Representation or Re-presentation? Roy Hawkey Part III ICT and the Curriculum 7. Analogue Clock/Digital Display: Continuity and Change in Debates about Literacy, Technology and English Viv Ellis 8. Information and Communication Technologies and Representation of Mathematics Michelle Selinger 9. ICT and Science Education: New Spaces for Gender ^Katrina Muller 10. What Effect Will Digital Technologies have on Visual Education in Schools Steve Long 11. Music Education in a New Millennium Robert Mawuena Kwami