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Had a look at the recent (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) magazine http://www.atl.org.uk/publications-and-resources/report/report-2010/feature-schools-ict.asp 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 â aside from a few hundred PCs running Windows XP and a handful of smart gadgets. .... 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 â whatever one of those might be. But no money has been saved whatsoever. Nor have we seen any obvious gains in productivity. We're not teaching larger cohorts. Pupils are not taking any more subjects or acquiring better grades. No one has identified improvements across the academic landscape that they are confident to ascribe to ICT. Indeed, for the most part â and for most teachers â ICT is at best a distraction and at worst a hurdle to the continuity of classroom teaching. .... Despite the lessons of prohibition and our extensive experience of teenage ingenuity, we still believe that we can control our students with a few lines of code and an 'Acceptable use policy', which is nice but, frankly, naÃve. It only takes one smart kid to bypass all our passwords, proxies, policies and procedures. One smart kid who can set up a wireless network of their own, a proxy server in their home and a password sniffer so good it could search for truffles. And I'm betting that you have at least one smart kid in your school. ... -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Fri Nov 5 19:42:05 GMT 2010
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