For many principals, ICT offers great potential and great challenge. We've got kids starting to do that. Its impact on staff, teaching, and learning is massive. We are looking at a radical change in teaching and learning. Although principals struggle to provide adequate ICT resources, good resources can prompt dramatic change in student proficiency with technology.
Students learn new applications quickly and often surpass their teachers.
Collaboration within and among classrooms increases. Students would be more independent learners, able to choose, for example, appropriate software to support their learning, albeit with the guidance and support of teachers. In a period of dramatic change, the impact of ICT on teaching and learning is only beginning. One principal was initially uninterested in ensuring that students and teachers had the latest technology, encouraging the use of old computers without CD-ROMs or Internet access. Six months later, the change was startling.