[elearning] 2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT?

[ken price]

Thanks Roland - I really despair when I hear people ask "we've just bought a
heap of interactive whiteboards/iPads/digital video software/wireless
netbooks/whatever , can someone please tell me what we can use them for?"
It's not just teachers who ask either...


Ken
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>  Here is an important article with some serious stabs at our heavy
> investment in expensive virtual learning environments, costly electronic
> whiteboards, expensive commercial software upgrades and opressive IT
> departments that work so hard to cripple what can really be done by the end
> user. Interesting to consider the way forward hinted by mLearning, open
> source and student ownership of the hardware. Regards Roland
>
> *Quotes:*
>
> 2010 October - feature: do schools need ICT? <http://diigo.com/0do0e>
>
>    - Ian Yorston explains why the current investment in ICT doesn't pay
>    "If you had to spend a million pounds, you'd really hope to have something
>    to show for it. Yet most schools have spent at least that on ICT and get
>    nothing obvious in return — aside from a few hundred PCs running Windows XP
>    and a handful of smart gadgets."
>
>
>    - If you had to spend a million pounds, you'd really hope to have
>    something to show for it. Yet most schools have spent at least that on ICT
>    and get nothing obvious in return — aside from a few hundred PCs running
>    Windows XP and a handful of smart ! gadgets.
>       - Schools are different. They're different because they have
>    invested millions of pounds in ICT for no obvious cost saving whatsoever.
>       - Valuable contact time has been offered up to teach ICT while staff
>    training opportunities have been squandered on yet another integration of
>    Microsoft Office or the introduction of an even newer, smarter, brighter VLE
>
>       - The real curiosity is that, even when the newest, fastest, coolest
>    computers have been purchased, heads promptly sit down to draw up policy
>    statements that effectively cripple the machines before they have even been
>    booted up.
>       - Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday's
>    technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis of
>    smartphones, smart apps and smart interfaces.
>       - Schools don't need ICT. It's coming through our doors every day.
>    We just need to adopt and adapt a little bit.
>
> Read more »<http://message.diigo.com/message/2010-october-feature-do-schools-need-ict-972983>
>
> (
> http://message.diigo.com/message/2010-october-feature-do-schools-need-ict-972983)
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/elearning/attachments/20101114/566a60fc/attachment.html