2. Lewis Perelman, author of School's Out (1992). Perelman argues that schools are out of sync with technological change: ...the technological gap between the school environment and the ‘real world’ is growing so wide, so fast that the classroom experience is on the way to becoming not merely unproductive but increasingly irrelevant to normal human existence (p.215).
3. Seymour Papert (1993) “In the wake of the startling growth of science and technology in our recent past, some areas of human activity have undergone megachange. Telecommunications, entertainment and transportation, as well as medicine, are among them. School is a notable example of an area that has not”(p.2).
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6. The Future of ICT and Education in New Zealand The next few years are a watershed time in secondary education and that ICT will play a major part in this. Students will be the centre of the learning process and access to adequate technology will be vital.
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9. The Current Situation at MGC The current situation in MGC allows for little true innovation in ICT, from either teachers or students. If we want our students to be the thinkers and doers, the creators and innovators then we must give them the necessary tools. The 21 st century and 21 st century learning will be all about connectivity.
