OECD Report On Technology in Our Classrooms

The headlines make some interesting reading but there is some really useful meat in this report.

The other  thing to note is as data collection and analysis becomes easier we are going to get lots more studies from OECD and other organisations looking at how education systems and learners are performing around the globe. These are the big things that economists and politicians love.

Global trends are one thing - but folks need to remember that literacy, numeracy and ICT skills are things than can be tackled locally ..worth looking at these and taking some positive action , with your own skills , in your class room/training centre , across your school,college, workplace  , in your local authority or within your sphere if influence local , regional , national .

The report has six key policy implications:

1. Raise awareness among educators, parents and policy makers of the consequences of increasingly ICT familiarity;
2. Identify and foster the development of 21st century skills and competences;
3. Address the second digital divide;
4. Adopt holistic policy approaches to ICT in education; Adapt school learning environments as computer ratios improve and digital learning resources increase;
5. Adapt school learning environments as computer ratios improve and digital learning resources increase;
6. Promote greater computer use at school and experimental research on its effects.