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 **The growth of enterprise pedagogy: How ICT policy is infected by Neo-liberalism. **
 * By Mark Brown **

  GROUP: Lucy Gentle Melissa Martin Jenna Palmieri Lina Gonzalez Danielle Gomez Chantelle McGurgan Ines Soares

  Schools can improve the ICT taught in each classroom through;  · Additional funding  · Courses, training and in-services for teachers and students <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Additional and updated resources/technologies <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Teachers need to be familiar with technology and recognize and fulfil its purpose in the classroom <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Teachers need specific ICT knowledge and skills <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Changing teacher attitudes towards ICT <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Changing teachers learning philosophy and pedagogy in order to include ICT <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Encouraging and educating teachers to create their own ICT tools such as WebQuests, as well as the ICT resources already available to them <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">How can schools improve ICT being taught in NSW? **
 * Teachers need to ask questions about the use of ICT and take risks.
 * They also need to find out about new technologies spend time trying to work out how to use them so that they can also assist the students. Ashley Online


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: red; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Apply this reading to what you have seen or might see occurring currently in schools. **

<span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In many schools there has been a lot of money spent on investing in technology and providing teachers with new and exciting technological tools. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">My own person experience on my third year prac. My teacher was 60 years old and was not confident at all using computers, she made excuses not to use them for example ‘they always break when I try to use them’. She also didn’t really let me use technology in the classroom. This definitely hindered my teaching experiences. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Technology needs to be used continually in the classroom. Especially in this day of age, the use of technology is a must. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is the responsibility of the teacher to ensure that what is learnt in professional development courses is then implemented in a realistic way in the classroom teaching and learning experiences. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For students, ICT cannot be taught in isolation, it needs to be followed up and critical thinking as well as skills must be practiced regularly. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">However, in most schools in NSW the use of technology is not up to scratch and needs to be improved. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Teachers own skills and knowledge needs to be improved and continually up-dated <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This is because technology is always changing and being develop, it is a must teachers are aware and use technologies in the classrooms. <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When on my prac I was fortunate to have a smart board within my classroom. After reading this article I have been able to relate my experiences with the fact that teacher need to be given the specific knowledge and skills to incorporate this interactive learning into their classrooms. If the particular schools does have the funds to place these boards in classroom it in necessary that they are incorporate in all that is done. When I was on my 10 weeks prac my teacher only used the smart board once. She was not confident on it and felt she was better off going about things her own way. To have such an interactive tool within your classroom and not feel confident using it, is very poor and a loss both to the school, teachers and students. [|http://schools.portnet.k12.ny.us/~jgilmartin/FOV1-00042185/S011CCDCB.0/smartboard6.jpg] <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lack of funding is a major setback in many schools as the school is unable to provide students with the digital technology that they require. ICT in schools ‘should be used to develop a new kind of digital curriculum where students learn how to be critical thinkers, critical consumers and critical citizens (p2). <span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Verdana', 'sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The school where I went for prac is an example of a school that suffers in ICT due to lack of funding. Some classrooms were lucky enough to be equipped with a computer. However, these computers did not work and looked they were about 50 years old. Many classrooms did not even have whiteboards let alone smart-boards. The students from this school are in a way deprived from learning and using the ICT skills that they need to be active digital citizens of today’s society. Brown (2005) argues that ‘a growing proportion of the workforce will require computer skills’ (p2).
 * Unfortunately I have not had a lot of experience with ICT in the classroom. I have never used a Smart board and the classrooms I have worked in have only two computers in the classroom that actually work.
 * The class teachers I have worked with do not know much about ICt andtherefore there is only a sall amount of time where students will engage in different technologies.
 * I agree that funding plays a huge factor in in the schools. The schools that I have completed pracs in do not have a lot of funding and are falling behing in ICT development. However, in the Kindergarten and Year 1 classrooms technology was a major resource used in learning engagements. they had the same access with technology as everyone else in the school however they were able to implement many different technologies. Unfortunately I did not get a chance to see how they did this but wish i did. They were very knowedgeble about what is available with not much money. Therefore educating teachers as to what is available is vital. Ashley (Online)