Dick Sblog

check out stephen hepple’s eloquent advocacy of the ‘c’ in ict in his recent contribution to the guardian’s education suppliment. Hear Hear!

but my observation is that the way in which people get to grips with new internet based technologies is through a process of play not under the pressure of work. people learn to email at home, they develop searching skills to find things they need to buy or holidays to book, they use social softare to keep in contact with their mates, to share music or photos. then they apply what they have learned in the workplace. the only group I know that doesn’t do this systematically is the teaching profession! overworked, stressed, operating in a tightly defined, test-obsessed system maybe they just don’t have the energy to go home and play with the same sort of technologies that their pupils use.