This was a set of slides I used in workshops with teachers in EDB of Hong Kong schools.

1. Effective Use of IT for English Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools Paul McMahon International Teacher.

4. One Laptop Per Child?

5. Do you market your school as being conservative, traditional and the place for old-fashioned learning??

6. Natives and Immigrants *Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, February 2003 Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests. Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun. Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards. Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards. Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam). Prefer to learn “just-in-time.” Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact. Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others. Prefer to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially. Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information. Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video. Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text. Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking. Prefer parallel processing and multitasking. Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources. Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources. Digital Immigrant Teachers Digital Native Learners

9. It requires more than a “bolt on”