I heard the most wonderful analogy today defining the difference between ICT-PD and e-Learning.  We had the absolute privilege of having Dorothy Burt share her knowledge and understandingof e-Learning with our whole cluster (yesterday) and our principals and lead teachers today.

Dorothy shared the old chinese proverb ‘…give a man a fish and you can feed him for day, teach him how to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime…’ and used it to illustrate the difference between the use of the terms ICT and e-Learning.  The comparison was deliciously simple, the essence being that the giving of the fish is the ICT element, and the teaching how to fish is related to the e-learning component.

What a wonderful and easy way to understand this concept!  I totally agreed with Dorothy, ‘Why do we call this development an ICT-PD Cluster, when essentially it is all about e-Learning?’.  This obvious question has helped us make some simple wording changes to our project (and soon our vision statement).  Let’s not forget, this development is all about the learning.

Thanks so much Dorothy, you clearly are an amazing teacher!