Independent reports backs creative use of ICT

Extracted from the excellent http://www.merlinjohnonline.net/ site.

Yet again, another indepdnant reports that states that using "cutting edge creative technology to work with some of the most challenging students" really does work.

Some comments and they aren't out of context at all.

“We did a big push on digital creativity, cutting edge stuff,” he says. “Kids were getting into podcasting really early, and we were using podcasting in teaching.”

“And I think these tools can do it. They ensure that kids will get it right.”

“Now when children become successful they feel better about themselves, and they stop ‘effing and blinding’ and doing all the things that, in the context of our work, get them excluded from mainstream schools. In the long term we don’t want them marginalised, so if we can help them believe they can learn, and be successful, they can then learn new behaviour and then learn to be sociable and the whole thing follows itself. What’s wonderful is, in the video clips you can see children talking about how it has impacted on them.”

It makes me even more convinced that what we are doling is right - we just need to get it to students!

Read the full report by clicking the merlinjohn link above.