ABSTRACT
Giving teachers easy access to computers encourages and improves the use
of IT in the curriculum.
The quality of children’s work when using computers, as with almost everything else in primary education, depends upon the skills of their classteacher, not in the grandiose plans for management systems, glossy heavyweight policy documents or the titles and job descriptions of promoted staff. Indeed there is an argument to say that the quality of the teacher and their teaching is the key to the educational process and that hence all other tasks are merely a distraction. The role of the classteacher is at the very heart of British primary education, covering all aspects of a child’s development and concerning itself with the whole child.
