Technophobia!

What a fab word. After reading about technophobia in Steve Wheelers book Transforming Primary ICT i've decided that up until a few weeks ago that was me. In fact i think most of my teacher friends are technophobes as well. Whenever i ask them what they use ICT for their response is always the same... " as little as i can get away with using". So for all those of you who may read my blog here's what it means... an extreme negative response to ICT which may be the result of fear or anxiety. Yep, that was me. As Wheeler says "No matter how good a technology is , it will fail if people either find it too difficult to use or percieve no use for it". Yep, that was definatly me! However... after spending several sessions looking at different aspects of ICT and how they can support the children's learning, as well as been able to play around with the software at home, i'm definatly a convert. Don't panic Mandy, i'm not ready to take over your ICT class yet.. infact never, but i am more in the corner of using ICT than i was before. Infact i better sign off my blog as i've got some work on textease to do. Who would have believed i would be using textease to make games a few months ago.. certainly not me! Good night.