[Advisory] IWBs - An Australian perspective
BobharrisonSET@aol.com
BobharrisonSET@aol.com
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:20:28 EST
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At last and honest and open perspective on this issue so thanks Paul and
Ray.
I wonder if there had been an intelligent debate on this issue prior to
Charles Clarke's decision(based on flimsy evidence and very poor advice) we
would have ever spent(wasted?) so much money and opportunity to transform
learning?
I am prepared to accept that the impact of IWB's in primary schools has
been positive but limited in scope.
I am afraid to say that the evidence of impact in secondary and further
education is less impressive.
However the key question which needs to be asked is about "opportunity
cost" as the IWB investment has,in my view,reinforced a pedagogy which is
detrimental to the effective and creative use of digital technologies in the
longer term.
The cost of that is incalcuable!
Best Wishes,
Bob Harrison,
Education Adviser, Toshiba Information Systems(UK) Ltd
Consultant ,BECTA and National College for School Leadership
Support for Education and Training
16 Meadowgate,
URMSTON,
Manchester
M419LB
01617498987
07957856117
bobharrisonset@aol.com
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" While this study has looked closely at the impact of ICT on how pupils
learn and how this might be enhanced....it has not addressed the impact of
what they learn or where learning takes place and whether the schools of the
future will be the physical entities we have today" The Impact of ICT in
schools-a landscape review-Becta 2007
"Using technology to improve education is not rocket science...it is
much,much harder than that" Diana Laurillard, Opening Up Education 2009
"An intensified activity in this area will lead educational institutions
to realize that they are embedded in a globalised and constantly evolving
knowledge society, and that, as a consequence, they will have to redefine
their role within society and within the learning process."
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies 2009
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<DIV>At last and honest and open perspective on this issue so thanks Paul=
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<DIV>I wonder if there had been an intelligent debate on this issue prior=
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would have ever spent(wasted?) so much money and opportunity to transform=
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learning?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am prepared to accept that the impact of IWB's in primary schools=
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been positive but limited in scope.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am afraid to say that the evidence of impact in secondary and furth=
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education is less impressive.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>However the key question which needs to be asked is about "opportunit=
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cost" as the IWB investment has,in my view,reinforced a pedagogy which is=
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detrimental to the effective and creative use of digital technologies in=
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<DIV>The cost of that is incalcuable!</DIV>
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pupils learn and how this might be enhanced....it has not addressed the im=
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of what they learn or where learning takes place and whether the schools=
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future will be the physical entities we have today" The Impact of ICT in=
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schools-a landscape review-Becta 2007<BR><BR>"Using technology to improve=
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education is not rocket science...it is much,much harder than that" Diana=
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area will lead educational institutions to realize that they are embedded=
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globalised and constantly evolving knowledge society, and that, as a=20
consequence, they will have to redefine their role within society and with=
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learning process."<BR>Joint Research Centre<BR>Institute for Prospective=
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