Michael Trucano from the World Bank highlights some bad Education ICT practice:
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Dump hardware in schools, hope for magic to happen
- Design for OECD learning environments, implement elsewhere
- Think about educational content only after you have rolled out your hardware
- Assume you can just import content from somewhere else
- Don’t monitor, don’t evaluate
- Make a big bet on an unproven technology (especially one based on a closed/proprietary standard) or single vendor, don’t plan for how to avoid ‘lock-in
- Don’t think about (or acknowledge) total cost of ownership/operation issues or calculations
- Assume away equity issues
- Don’t train your teachers (nor your school headmasters, for that matter)
