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In English ICT can enhance teaching and learning by enabling pupils to: plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing using a word processor and other desktop publishing packages; easily locate and read significant parts of the text by using search strategies; locate information quickly, confidently and accurately; publish writing in a variety of forms; have access to a wider number of texts online e.g. newspapers; communicate with a wider group of people e.g. via e-mail, newsgroups, online conferencing; integrate different media into one text; use a wider range of texts to: compare the way information is presented; identify the features of particular text types; discuss the merits and limitations of particular text types; investigate how reading strategies are adapted to suit different texts.

1. Create a Bubbl.us mindmap about anything related to this ICT topic e.g. PMI of using ICT in education or a map of the important ideas in each core reading. 2. When complete, embedd your diagram into your wiki page. Example 3. If time, explore Voicethread and either make a comment on the work of others or create your own simple example.

The Flinders University of South Australia

There is a second fallacy, which is also very important, which we might call the miracle transformation fallacy -- i.e., the notion that, if we could get little green laptops into children's hands, it would miraculously transform their lives. This fallacy falls within an approach known as "media determinism," the notion that a particular media or technology will automatically have a certain effect no matter what context it is deployed in.

He found that the single strongest factor determining whether students received a positive benefit from school use of technology was the children's socioeconomic status (SES), with low-SES children tending to see test scores go down with computer use and high-SES children tending to see them go up.

Wenglinsky's data suggests that this is in part due to the differential ways computers are used by teachers of high- and low-SES students.