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The internet has greatly increased the sources available for history teaching in secondary schools.Web-based resources can be used online or offline or, where copyright permits, as print-outs for class or homework.The examples given here cover a range of possible activities in which ICT is used effectively in different ways.

The National Curriculum for England gives examples of types of applications that can be used to enhance pupils’ learning and interest in the subject which do not involve the purchase of large amounts of subject-specific software. Instead they encourage teachers to use generic software such as word processors and data-handling programs when relevant to lesson objectives.

Using internet-based resources need not be a stand-alone activity. Pupils need to see the internet as only one of a range of sources of information, and should be encouraged to compare and combine findings from books, pictures and other media as well as internet sites. Internet searches can be used in combination with other software such as word processors to help pupils to construct historical arguments in which the web resources are used to illustrate a point. Some pupils will benefit from the use of word-processing techniques to help them to analyse texts such as primary sources found on the web, before drawing conclusions about their point of view, their accuracy or the extent to which they are related to other sources.

Publication Date: 2003

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