By Andrew Goodwyn
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Such developments depend very much on who owns or appropriates the concept 'lifelong learning', the debate on which, until now, has largely left schools out; on the way government initiatives like the University for Industry develop; and on developments in the understanding of and practice in learning design. What implications are there for English teachers at primary and secondary levels? In practice, will children submit homework on disc, or directly to the teacher's computer via e-mail? Will computer conferencing establish itself more centrally in education and learning?
30 English in the Digital Age We see ICT as underpinning an enhanced and richer conception of literacy that brings together the verbal and the visual, the aural and the choreographic. We see ICT as enabling new possible contexts for these forms of expression, as bringing about a return to a close relationship between the various modes of communication, and as liberating creativity both in and outside the classroom. There are opportunities to reshape the curriculum in ways that are currently being hinted at by new specialist schools and colleges, for example by opening up the timetable, by integrating different subjects, by allowing ICT to pervade curricular work and by creating specific briefs for students which demand research, the interpretation and reintegration of information, and the exploration of new audiences.
The use of text - of words - on the computer screen is changing fast. Whereas in the printed book, particularly in fiction, the words are often ascetically - to give room for the imagination - framed by the cool white margins, on the computer screen they are conventionally framed in 'windows' alongside, beneath or above visual images, icons, navigation tools, text in different fonts, etc. The same is the case in some textbooks, comics, magazines and, increasingly, in newspapers, viz that visual images and words are contiguous and battling each other or complementing each other in gaining the reader's attention.