What is the role of the teacher in literacy teaching and learning with ICT?
Initially a pilot study was conducted with children aged 5 -7 to test a quasi-experimental research design and a particular intervention programme involving ICT and writing (see Waller 1998). As a result of the pilot the research was focused on investigating the nature, context and the quality of teacher-child interactions when using ICT in literacy. The first phase of the project involved working with teachers on a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course concerning literacy and ICT in classes with children from the ages of 4-7 years. The analysis of data gathered as a result of this course focused on the wider context of the integration of ICT into classroom teaching and learning and was reported in Waller (1999) and Waller (2000b). The responses of the children and teachers involved in the study at that stage suggested that the impact of the computer in the wider community, and the comparative inability of schools to keep up with these developments, has given rise to two dif
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