Today I attempted to make a start on the up skilling of my students in the use of IT. The aim was to use the content management system to give them electronic copies of the assignment and accompanying worksheet that would scaffold the information they are going to gather. A number of obstacles arose: 1) a student did not have access to the documents in the CMS because the class list had not been updated since he moved into the class. 2) The students' access to Google Docs was blocked, which meant that they were not able to upload the worksheet.
One of the students mentioned that she would not be able to complete the worksheet at home because her computer would not recognise the Word document. I explained that with Google docs this would not be a problem, but could not let her experience this for herself.
It is becoming obvious that if we are going to utilise any Web 2.0 tools, then the screening system in our school will have to be reviewed.
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