Technology Matters But Good Teachers Matter More

This paper uses the strategic management technique of scenario planning to focus attention on plausible futures for the use of ICT in education and to stimulate strategic thinking about technology, teaching and learning. It begins by looking at some predictions about the use of technology in education and presents two scenarios as vignettes. Both scenarios are about Year 9 students and teachers. The first — If I see another piece of multimedia I think I will puke — describes a teaching learning environment where the technology is in control. The second — e-ngage, e-mpower,e-nable — describes a teaching and learning environment that is technology rich and the learner is in control.