Do students know more about technology than their teachers?

We asked the experts for their verdicts education

Rob

Appelby, an art teacher, Herne Bay High School, Kent

not necessarily mean that teachers know less about IT - do not know how to teach. The program still seems to lag behind. My students do not want to learn Excel spreadsheets or

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Karen Davies, director of learning resources, the Science Museum

Children are very experimental and really push the limits, but adults tend to be more careful. This is why students often seem to know more than teachers - which is a matter of trust. Yes, there are many things we can learn from the youth, but children need frameworks and structures that help them learn -. And that's what teachers are

Sam Dutton
• defender developers of Google Chrome

children are very capable of consumers, but not necessarily how the technology. It's that feeling of being like computers a mystery black box. This is a fairly passive technology to watch, so it's where I want to see teachers in the schools being much more proactive, teaching children skills like computer programming.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers

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