Best Practice

Keeping your school’s ICT strategy in the air

School management
To start with technology and ignore the learning landscape is to invite disaster. Alistair Smith looks at some key aspects to consider to ensure that your ICT strategy is future-proof.

In the world of aviation the, acronym CFIT stands for Controlled Flight Into Terrain. In the last 20 years some 25 per cent of aviation accidents have involved a crew flying a perfectly serviceable aircraft into the ground.

Of the contributory factors, a loss of situational awareness seems common to all. Pilots became fixated with the technology immediately in front of them and lost sight of the changing landscape beyond.

As the pressures to find a successful solution increase, the chances of doing so diminish. In this situation, the perils of poor decision-making are catastrophic.

If there is an education parallel, it occurs when a school fixates on technology without first attending to the learning landscape.

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