ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the present position of computing in schools and explains how it reached that position. It analyses the different roles of computing in schools and provides information about the various ways in which a teacher can obtain support. Developments of computer based learning have necessitated new investigations of the interactions between teacher, pupil and curriculum. The computer must be able to read each instruction, and act accordingly, and this is achieved by writing the instructions in a programming language before they are put into the computer. Computer education is education about computing, which nearly always involves education using computing. Teachers who feel that they need help with their educational computing activities should usually first seek support from people, and associations of people, at a local level. The chapter explains the typical ways in which computing is organized in schools.
