Impact of ICT in schools

Thanks to the good folks across the pond at BECTA for releasing another thoughtful, insightful, concise, and high-quality report on the role of technology in education.

I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU READ THIS REPORT.  The link to the report is here and I’ve uploaded the report here (1.3MB PDF).

I suppose there might be some variance in the findings due to cultural differences (they are English, after all) but I suspect the reports findings are relevant and applicable to the US educational system.

On 26 January 2007, Rob Englebright inscribed the following thoughts about this post:

you may be interested in a paper from Becta due out soon called “Emerging Technologies”, which has some stuff on the educational use of games..

On 26 January 2007, Bill inscribed the following thoughts about this post:

Thank you, Rob!  I’ll keep this in mind. I was quite impressed with the quality and depth of the Becta report.

On 28 January 2007, Ewan McIntosh inscribed the following thoughts about this post:

It might be worth pointing out that some of the best practice in the report comes from Scotland (not England), as well as the other two nations. Becta is a British-wide organisation.