THE DESIRE TO EXCEL

It is not really surprising that Elliott is critical about the pace with with ICTs are being integrated into the teaching time. She identifies and pinpoints two reasons,the first being underplaying the role of ICTs as understood and used by the teacher and second the role of the immediate decision makers at schools.She conveys the image of most teachers being reluctant to get out their thick skins of the past and somehow disregard or regard lowly the integration of ICTs as a much needed thrust as part of a national Australian education plan.Though her paper is informative and reflects the research findings of ICTs and Education,it nevertheless conveys a grim picture of teachers being the villains in the theater of Modernity.She seems convinced that unless the teachers take upon themselves the task of reinventing themselves with ICT no plan,grant or availability of resources would ensure that the classrooms are truly modern.

However it is worthy to note that teachers do also have a desire to excel,and do pick up tools of modernity based upon experience.Unless teachers are given the expertise and the tools of ICTs,they will continue to believe that traditional methods were better.Let examples be set by the torchbearers of the ICT and the rest are bound to follow.To blame reluctance and conservatism is to be critical of the past.