The Lean IT Field Guide

E-schooling: Global Messages from a Small Island looks at how an entire school system is starting to transform learning through ICT. It is based on an evaluation of ICT work in a wide range of schools in Northern Ireland and askes what it takes to change learning through technology in what we call 'e-schooling'. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_The book sets analyzes and suggests answers to two key questions:_x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_can the intervention of government and the forging of strategic alliances with providers of education and of technology bring about systemic change? _x005F_x000D_without radical reform of curriculum, assessment and learning are computers any more than a frill?_x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_The authors, an education technology strategist and inspector, and a teacher education specialist, map out the complexities for those involved in teaching, training and evaluating in what is probably one of the most far reaching changes to education ever seen._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_This book puts the spotlight on the costs and benefits of e-schooling and asks some hard-hitting questions of those involved in educating young people in schools at the start of the twenty-first century.