Technological white elephants

I had a recent request during a MirandaNet discussion thread, in response to Michael Gove’s speech to the Schools Network (1/12/2011), to re-post on a blog for future reference. Here goes…

“Where things have gone wrong, I usually find at the heart of the matter a very good sales team of technology-driven developments getting in front of a senior leadership team member or headteacher without good advice, i.e. interactive whiteboards without pedagogy, video-conferencing without clear purpose, virtual learning environments without the belief that what goes on is different than paper-based learning...”