The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: –> Computers in Classrooms 3 April 2009
It’s been found recently , by Ofsted, that teachers tend to teach ICT up to the limit of their own knowledge, and that this effectively holds children back. In my experience, where ICT is taught by non-specialists, this kind of “dumbing down” goes on as a matter of course. It’s not deliberate: teachers don’t know what they don’t know. It’s therefore not a criticism as such. If I taught English, it would almost certainly be superficial, because I’m not an English specialist, even though I’ve been speaking the language for over half a century. Why should we assume that if we send someone on an interactive whiteboard training course and give them a laptop for producing their worksheets, and they book their vacations online, that they’re qualified to teach ICT?
The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: –> Computers in Classrooms 3 April 2009
