D’you know, I’m not convinced by ICT suites in schools, are you?

It seems to me that putting masses of bulky ICT kit in a room and then expecting teachers to book their use of the room, is a bit out-dated and not really conducive to 21^st Century learning, what do you think?

I’ve met some teachers who argue that its good to have a room with all the kit in if you want to teach ICT to a class of 30 kids; after all you don’t want all that large equipment clogging up a classroom that’s also used for everything else from Art to games on a wet playtime!

Sometimes, though, it seems to be a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’, if you don’t see it, you don’t think about it and you don’t think about using it. This would seem to be true for learners as well as teachers; if the learners don’t see the ICT kit in a classroom, they don’t think about using it in a lesson.

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