A 21st century teacher (10 Oct 2003)
When Jim started at John Cabot, he told the staff that they weren't going to buy any more ICT equipment for six months and that they would go through the whole curriculum and think about how they could use ICT to improve things. In his previous job at RM he had visited around 350 schools and learned from their mistakes. "I got really fed up with the technological approach to the use of ICT: 'let's buy some new technology and see what we can do with it'. I started to look at the issue from a pedagogical perspective - let's look at what we teach and see what we can improve using ICT," he says. And at John Cabot he could put these ideas into practice.
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