ABSTRACT
Progress in education doesn’t travel in straight lines. This chapter looks at the progress one secondary school has made in the development of IT art and design activity as an entitlement for all pupils. It looks at this within the constraints of the secondary curriculum, and in particular the successive changes resulting from the implementation of the National Curriculum and its revisions during the five year period 1989-94. It reviews early experimentation with IT in the art department, during 1988-91, when the school was participating in the Pupil Autonomy in Learning with Microcomputers (PALM) Project (for a fuller discussion of PALM, see Chapter 9); and it shows how those ideas have been used as the basis for further development of IT use in art during 1992-4, particularly with eleven-to fourteenyear-olds (Key Stage 3).
