ABSTRACT
When discussing the values dimension of teaching and learning, the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) across the curriculum is likely to become increasingly important. ICT has assumed greater prominence in the National Curriculum for schools as time has passed. In 1990, in the first version of the National Curriculum, it appeared as Information Technology (IT) and was to be found in the Technology Order along with Design and Technology. This created some confusion about the status and purpose of IT use in schools, by appearing to define it in terms of the technology. The revision of the National Curriculum in 1995 went some way to rectifying the situation by treating IT as a subject in its own right, and emphasising the use of IT as a cross-curricular tool rather than as a technology.
