ABSTRACT
The student experience of computers at home is quite a different matter from the ethos of school. The attitudes towards using computers at school tend to be dissociated from the more general perspective of home and friends. They are, nevertheless, linked in subtle ways, and some of the small variations in opinion derive from the particulars of the home experience. Computing is an individual experience. Schools are essentially collective. The one milieu is private there might be many connections to many people and a plethora of communications, but it is personal. In the national curriculum, ICT is presented in a number of ways. It is envisaged as a cross-curricular competence, but one which is both learned for its own sake and embedded in other subjects. The schools adopted three modes of timetabling ICT. The ability to develop learning skills showed in the way that homework was prepared.
