Pedagogy before Technology

"Students can not be effective in tomorrow's world if they're trained in yesterday's skills"

How profound and accurate this statement truely is. In today's schools, students are taught about computers yet rarely use them, unless they study ICT subjects. In reality not many teachers are using computers within their classrooms, nor are computers contributing substantially to students learning. "On average less than 10% reported that IT made a substantial contribution to teaching and learning. The 1997 statistical bulletin still shows less than 10% of teachers reported ICT making a substantial contribution to teaching and learning; little change in eight years."
Thus in order to contribute to the academic and lifelong learning success of these students, it is integral for us as newly qualified teachers to find a new teaching pedagogy. One that can utilise ICT and assist with students learning. Technology should not be perceived as a cataylst for change however more importantly as an educational tool.

I would like to presume that the findings of the above study (Watson 2001) would be significantly different from 10 years ago. That technology is assisting students learning both within and outside of the classroom in today's world. I would hope that teachers in classrooms today could utilise technology to achieve both higher order thinking and deeper understanding of the content to aid in students academic progress.

Department for Education (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997) Survey of Information Technology in Schools.

Department for Education (1995) Information Technology in the National Curriculum. HMSO, London

D.M. Watson (2001) Pedagogy before Technology: Re-thinking the Relationship between ICT and Teaching