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Prevention is better than cure.
I believe this notion of 'school' may be quite different from what actually happens in many schools today. Perhaps the most crucial aspect of looking at this new place of learning as a system is the idea that it will be developing into what you could call a 'learning organisation'. A learning organisation is a place where everybody, at all levels, all the time, is learning to improve themselves, and consequently the organisation. Feedback and information is constantly sought to develop the system. If we are to exploit the learning potential of ICT, and really use it to try to develop NEW ways of learning for both teachers and students, systems thinking might help us to avoid just clipping ICT onto school systems which, in many respects, are incompatible with societal demands and needs.