ABSTRACT
The surveys of student computer use undertaken over more than five years of the study showed students using Information Technology tools to undertake tasks across the whole of their education. Key Skills has been embedded in the post-sixteen curriculum and in vocational training. Surveys of teacher competence in the use and application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) during the same period have highlighted a growing disparity between students and their teachers. In 'The Savage Mind' Levi Strauss used the 'Bricolage' to describe the way in which the non-literate, non-technical Mind of 'primitive' man responds to the world around him. Throughout the research it has been noted that students work with whatever software tools are to hand. These tools range from the basic integrated Works packages installed on educational networks, through those, like Lotus SmartSuite or Corel WordPerfect Suite, which are bundled with machines sold into the domestic market, to the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Office.
