ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the relationship between popular digital technology and education practice in the hope that it will serve as an inspiration to try new things in the Computing classroom. The computing landscape of schools is changing as it begins to accommodate Computer Science alongside its ICT curriculum. For digital literacy to remain as a key thread of Computing in schools, it needs to extend the application-driven focus of ICT to concentrate on both the digital and the social processes that lie behind technology and how these can be applied to our everyday lives. However, digital resources are now utilised by almost half of all primary pupils on a weekly basis and the use of digital technology both in school and in the home is seen by many as an integral and fundamental aspect of childhood. For technology to be an effective learning tool, teachers have to create a strategy or pedagogy to make it work in their classroom.
