ABSTRACT
Information and communication technology (ICT) in its various forms is a feature of most History classrooms today. This chapter focuses on the affordances of ICT as a means for teachers and students to access and present information. The aim is to look beyond what research suggests is the most common practice with ICT in the classroom – as an aid to teacher presentation. The chapter explores the concern that while high-school-level students have unprecedented access to information today, historical or otherwise, there is substantial evidence that they are not effective users of these online sources of information. The chapter also attempts to put forward some possible ways in which History teachers can develop their use of ICT to make an important contribution to tackling the problem. The chapter considers a few examples of how ICT can be used to uphold traditional academic, cognitive and pedagogical positions in the teaching of History.
