Glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations - Teaching with Technologies: The Essential Guide - page 215

NCET National Council for Educational Technology : The government

agency assigned with responsibility for educational technology in
schools, superseded by Becta from april 1998.

NGfL National Grid for Learning : Launched in March 1998, this was

the government's key initiative for improving ICT provision in
schools, developing a wide range of digital resources for teaching
and learning and equipping teachers to be effective users of ICT.

NOF New Opportunity Fund : The funding body, which provided

a national 'ICT Training' programme for serving teachers and
librarians, launched in april 1998.

Pedagogic
knowledge

The skills to transform subject knowledge into suitable learning
activities for a particular group of pupils.

Ofsted office for Standards in Education. Non-Ministerial government

department established under the Education (schools) act (1992)
to take responsibility for the inspection of schools in England.

Scaffolding Scaffolding learning refers to the process of building pupils

learning on the foundation of their existing knowledge, skills,
capabilities and attitudes.

Software The applications (or programs) which run on computers.

Social
software

Software tools that allow users to interact and share information/
data with other users over the Internet.

Statutory
order

a statutory instrument which is regarded as an extension of an
act, enabling provisions of the act to be augmented or updated.

TDA Training and Development agency for Schools: In 2005 the TDa

superseded the TTa (Teacher Training agency) with an extended
remit for overseeing standards and qualifications across the school
workforce. This has now become the TaC (Teaching agency) part
of the DFE from 2012.

Web 2.0 Web 2.0 technologies refers to online collaborative tools and

services; these include social networking sites like Facebook,
media-sharing sites like flickr and YouTube, collaborative
publishing using blogs and wikis, social bookmarking like del.
iciou.us.

wiki Series of Web pages that multiple users can edit, add to and re/

publish; these can be open and public, or private and password
protected; allows for collaborative publishing. For example,
Wikipedia, the free online encylopedia that any one can edit,
which is built collaboratively using wiki software.