Welcome!
This baby is primarily intended for teachers at International School Manila, as a means of sharing our thoughts and ideas on the role we think ICT should play in education at our school. Not because we think there should necessarily be MORE technology in classrooms, but because we think the technology we do use could DO a whole lot MORE for the educational outcomes we hope to achieve in our classrooms…
The blog you’re reading is a point in case: while up until now, there has been a monthly IT newsletter going out to all faculty and staff in the school, it was in a traditional, static HTML format, which did not allow for any form of interaction, such as comments with user feedback or further discussion of a topic. The IT @ ISM newsletter is therefore being superseded by this blog, as we felt a blog could do more to promote a conversation about the role of ICT in our classrooms.
Through our posts and discussions, we hope to make the case that the vast plethora of new web 2.0 tools cropping up on a daily basis not only can, but probably will (whether we like it or not) fundamentally change the educational landscape in which we work. By embracing it early on, we probably stand a better chance of getting it right and benefiting our students and ourselves as educational professionals.
