It was seemed so easy for some people to pull out a bookmark in a discussion – it often felt like a tank rolling over a landscape previously committed to trench warfare.

http://deangroom.posterous.com/the-premiers-challenge – I had to sketch respond to the article in the NSW DET newspaper, it is full of fear and deficit thinking, like I said all day “I want my kids to go to public school that doesn’t suck”. I wonder how many senior people send their kids to public schools, and how motivation would change if they had too.

I was interested to hear the comment from several people that the reason many teachers haven’t yet engaged with ICT is “because there is still no compelling evidence that it improves learning outcomes”.

What do others think about that? If regular and relevant feedback is important, as the research over 20 years says it is, then what better way to help the teacher and peers to provide it than with a combination of personalised learning via computer applications and communication and collaboration via web 2 tools.

@jen Thanks Jen. I like your comment because it has all to do with teaching & student attitude and not necessarily the medium to convey. You beaut’ instant VoiceThread or clunky old audio tape – they just don’t want to hear the bad stuff. Well, reality bites sometimes… Cheers!