New Technology and the Classroom (A Link)

Ewan McIntosh is one of the most interesting bloggers that I've read. In one of today's posts he writes:

The arguments that new technologies are just a fad, a cherry on the cake, an added extra, a bolt-on, a treat, something we can pass by, nothing that a good PowerPoint can't supercede, nothing that a textbook hasn't achieved until now, nothing that our best exam factory schools can't do without... all of this is is just keich. The teachers touting this must wake up to the fact that they are not engaging their kids unless they do use these technologies, the ones the kids use. Moreover, they're not really preparing them how to cope with the information being passed over to them unless they teach how to manipulate and analyse that information with these tools.

I've posted a comment in response to this article on Ewan's blog.

I suggest that you take a look at his entire blog, edublogs. It's really insightful.