The Significance of Affective Issues in Successful Learning with ICT for Year One and Two Pupils and their Teachers: The Final Outcomes of the ICT and the Whole Child Project

This paper considers for the first time the final results of the ICT and the Whole child project sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation. Two classrooms of the future with high quality, ICT equipment and software chosen from a child-centred perspective were installed in a primary school near Leeds and the effects evaluated over two years with a special focus on self esteem. The year one and year two classrooms were designed to increase positive...