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Computers and Talk in the Primary Classroom

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This text looks at how computers are being used in primary classrooms and how they could be used better. Its three sections focus upon: how do we investigate learning through talk around computers?...
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  • 20 November 1997
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This text looks at how computers are being used in primary classrooms and how they could be used better. Its three sections focus upon: how do we investigate learning through talk around computers? What affects the quality of group work around computers? What can teachers do to improve this?
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Price: $39.95
Pages: 264
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Publication Date: 20 November 1997
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.85 in
ISBN: 9781853593956
Format: Paperback
BISACs: EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL), EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, Educational strategies and policy, Primary and middle schools
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Acknowledgements
Contributors
A Note on Transcriptions
1. Rupert Wegerif and Peter Scrimshaw: Introduction: Computers, Talk and Learning
Section 1: Talk Matters
2. Neil Mercer and Eunice Fisher: The Importance of Talk
3. Eunice Fisher: Educationally Important Types of Children's Talk
4. Eunice Fisher: Developments in Exploratory Talk and Academic Argument
5. Rupert Wegerif and Neil Mercer: A Dialogical Framework for Researching Peer Talk
Section 2: Computers and Children's Talk
6. Terry Phillips and Peter Scrimshaw: Talk Round Adventure Games
7. Eunice Fisher: Children's Talk and Computer Software
8. Rupert Wegerif: Children's Talk and Computer Software: A Response to Fisher
9. Peter Scrimshaw and Gary Perkins: Tinker Town: Working Together
10. Joan Swann: Tinker Town: Reading and Re-reading Children's Talk Round the Computer
11. Madeline Watson: The Gender Issue: Is What You See What You Get?
12. Janet Collins and Alison Syred-Paul: Children as Researchers Using CD-ROM Encyclopaedias
13. Rupert Wegerif: Factors Affecting the Quality of Children's Talk at Computers
Section 3: Teachers Make a Difference
14. Lyn Dawes: Teaching Talking
15. Neil Mercer and Eunice Fisher: Scaffolding Through Talk
16. Madeline Watson: Improving Group Work at Computers
17. Rupert Wegerif and Lyn Dawes: Computers, Talk and Learning: An Intervention Study