Information and communication technology is now a mature part of the curriculum. Once restricted to upper secondary schools as "computer studies", ICT is now taught even to children in reception class.
The basic requirement is a scheme of work that develops pupils' ICT-capability in a variety of contexts, and ensures progression over time. The enormity of the task sometimes overwhelms teachers, but one advantage of a set of lesson plans based on a scheme of work is that the task is made manageable.
The ideal situation is to have an ICT suite where you can teach the whole class at once how to do things, and networked computers in the classrooms, so that pupils can practise their skills in a subject context.
The role of the teacher in raising standards in and through ICT remains the same: to ask the right questions at the right time and move pupils in a new direction, to a higher level of understanding.
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