Reading an article in Leask,M "Issues in teaching ICT", one of the contributors, Christine Preston (P190 for those interested) writes that teachers are not guided in the management of change. Papert in one of his books describes a hypothetical situation where a group of surgeons and a group of teachers are transported from the 1900's to the present day. The modern day operating theatre is alien to the surgeons while the modern day classroom more comfortable than a 1900 equivalent is still functionally the same.
How would we look at the classroom of today in a 100 years time? Will there be a classroom within a building? Will Children be taught by mechanical nannies?
Will they will be called teacher or have a new title knowledge dispensers.?
Change always occurs. Maybe teachers need to learn the lesson that to direct the bucking bull of change you need to be on top of it, not to be dragged by it.
On a similar vein does anyone remember a story in a sixth class
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