ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which media and information and communications technology (ICT) may be seen as central to good practice for teaching English in the twenty-first century. The advent of digital information storage and transmission in ICT has greatly enhanced the cross-fertilisation of media and English work. English became the major developmental force through its subject associations, local continuing professional development (CPD) centres notably the EMC, and collaboration with cultural organisations like the British Film Institute (BFI). The active pedagogy at the heart of media education is attractive to English teachers who, though subjected to prescriptive and reductive revisions of the National Curriculum, remain characteristically inventive. The National Curriculum lists a great number of authors and The Simpsons is never listed. An extensive range of media activities to support KS3 and KS4 English can be found in Grahame and several recent EMC titles.
