Today I attended the PD at Designwyse. VELS stuff puts me to sleep. It's interesting that ICT holds the basket together. Anyway, we got onto the creative stuff. iLife is presented and, yes, it makes sense to have system that holds all the creative software together. So I think. Can kids be creative whilst studying Politics or Business? There are certainly a number of aspiring movie makers out there and a lot of kids buying MacBooks, but creativity per se does not give me a pass in VCE or HSC.
The question again arises, why have ICT in schools? Well, we have an ever changing technological world and kids must get used to it. Do podcasts, vodcasts and other related creative activities actually help kids in some sense.
Then, there's the question of creativity in the junior and middle schools years. Does the knitting of ICT into the mainstream curriculum actually help you to get through school? Obviously it provides different avenues for expression, where the "old schools" fail, in comes a new age where technology rescues us from monotony. Will pen and paper suffice or will the iLife and other creative suites give another flavour to the old pumpkin soup?
These questions and more I propose to answer in more or less words as I delve deeper into the integration of ICT into the curriculum.
