It is I believe important to match the technology to the task as well as the learner.By providing a variety of tools and strategies students can explore and use a range of technologies, learning about them as they go. We only know how to effectively use a tool, when we use it! In delivering lessons we can decide what we want the students to achieve and then backward plan according to the needs the students may have to be able to achieve the task. ICT can be a tool used to present a lesson or it can be a focus of a lesson.

Enjoyed Jonah's comments in his blog "Do Teachers need to learn how to learn" - http://salsichteach.edublogs.org/2012/01/02/do-teachers-need-to-relearn-how-to-learn/ - about whether teachers are too reliant on professional development to learn anything new. Working in a high school and being advised by a young person in the 20s, if they don't know how to do something, they Google it/YouTube it etc! If we are encouraging independent learning, then we need to model it as well. As has been said before, and applies to so many areas in life, Walk the Talk!

Hadn't heard of this term before, but recognise an abundance of it around as we go through life. In regards to studying, whether in the school or tertiary sector, how many times do you hear individuals say, "Just do enough to pass", so that it makes you wonder if they have done their very best, as is expected. We do need to be honest and true to the claims we make.