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Story: Becta report highlights schools' IT limitations

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School heads must champion technology, not just tick the boxes.

Stephen Crowne is absolutely correct in summing up the report, I would go further and say that most schools have a stab at harnessing technology, most are just paying lip service to it though. They have a website which has a couple of calendar dates, updated once or twice a term. That means they can tick the box ‘providing information and resources to parents’. By giving their pupils a folder on the school network they can also tick the box that says ‘pupils have a secure digital storage area’.
Until there is a concerted effort by schools to engage the wider community by using proper home-school partnership tools nothing will change. It’s down to individual schools and specifically the Executive Heads to champion the technology, there are no excuses.

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