Mal Lee is a keen observer of how schools utilise technology, and has co-authored several important books about schooling in the digital age. He poses the above question, and gives the following answer:

It is timely at the start of 2009 to ask if your school and/or education authority is embracing or stymying the educational use of the online and networked world. Are you actively educating your students for a digital future or are you assuming the best way forward is to protect them, in an artificial world called the school ?  …

One  of the clearest indicators of whether the school and/or education authority is preparing its young for a digital future is its attitude towards the school use of the online and the access it provides its students to that world…

Pru Mitchell, from education.au and I decided to have a closer look at the stance taken by Australia’s 40 plus education authorities and its independent schools on student access to the main online educational facilities.

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