ABSTRACT
The most longstanding exhortation, which sometimes sounds like a plea, is to make the new technology so central that the whole nature of schooling will be changed. The exhortation, aimed at teachers, is for them to make every possible use of the available technology, to consider various programs and new devices that are to transform all styles of teaching and learning. The enthusiasm to take up what ICT offers is unabated, but it must be acknowledged that the education system remains implacable. Individual endeavour is diminished by the more general ethos of schools. The strategies for the introduction and development of ICT have not been thought through. They were an addition to an already burdened curriculum rather than a replacement. Those computers are a central part of the school experience is not in doubt. Even if the provision of resources varies, no school is without the means of making use of ICT in a variety of ways.
