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Educational materials were initially devised by teachers for teachers, financed by the [[Department of Education and Science (UK)|Department of Education and Science]] of England, Northern Ireland and Wales. It was common to see written on various books and leaflets that the aims of the programme were to 'promote, within the school curriculum, the study of [[microelectronics]] and its effects, and to encourage the use of the technology as an aid to teaching and learning'.
By 1982, the [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]] became involved and began to introduce computers in the secondary schools, later the primary schools. Teams of teachers, programmers and publishers worked hard to develop software to run on a variety of machines. The two most popular were [[Acorn Computers]] and [[RM plc|Research Machines]] computers. The [[Sinclair Research Ltd|Sinclair]] [[ZX Spectrum]] was used in a variety of situations, very often for control projects, such as teaching children how traffic lights worked.
14 Regional Information Centres were set up around the UK to demonstrate materials to local teachers. There was one information officer, one director and a number of training coordinators per region. The focus for the training was split into four 'domains': - the Computer as a Device (exploring and developing Computer Science as a subject); Communications and Information Systems (looking at the electronic office and developing a Business Studies theme); Electronics and Control Technology (developing devices and resources to support Science and Technology subjects); and Computer Based Learning (looking and developing how uses of technology could support teaching and learning right through and across the whole curriculum).
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