Cultural Change Needed

Cultural change needed to exploit ICT in schools, Dr Alison Elliott.
An interesting article with some interesting oberservations about what I feel are very fundamental issues that relate to the development of ICT in the classroom. It certainly raises many issues and questions for me. I think many teachers that I have met, work with technology very effectively in the classroom, issues around this can relate to time and availability of computer labs and the system holding up and not breaking down. The curriculm has big holes in the implimentation of ICT, just how much extra load are we willing to pile up on our already heavily loaded teachers.
The use of ICT in schools is directly related to funding, not necessarily teachers ability to teach with it. The cost issue is fundamental to creating a divide between the haves and the have nots. Education is constantly being kicked from pillar to post by state goverment and federal goverment. And there is little support to teachers that wish to develope further in these areas, finding the money for casual teachers to replace staff out on new technology courses is almost impossible. The model of the "sage on the stage" as opposed to the "guide on the side" it really is about being a bit of both, and the wonderful development of ICT at this stage is making it a far more possible to teach using both manners. Reading through this article it seems to me that teachers are the ones who constantly need education in how they can best educate using all the tools in the eduation bag, not just one or the other. Again how much money is in the kitty, who says where it goes, how it is spent etc, it is a hugely complicated web to me at this stage.