http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2010/02/28/the-ict-dilema-facing-senior-management-in-fe/ Cetis Blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/2010/02/28/the-ict-dilema-facing-senior-management-in-fe/#comment-56 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:45:48 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/pah1/?p=60#comment-56 This is a very useful posting, which helps towards explaining some of the complexities involved, and may help to depolarise the argument (eventually). It is very possible to argue cogently for the teaching/learning benefits of social networking, and the evidence is starting to build on this one (see e.g. Gloucester College (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8299050.stm). However, there is another side to this story, and this posting is a timely reminder that there are multiple stakeholders here, all with potentially radically different perspectives. It is essentially a risk management issue, which may be distorted to ‘rik minimisation’ by people with strong concerns. This is not healthy, and may well be accentuated by the Ofsted weighting of criteria. No easy answers, but good to discuss this! There is sometimes too much emphasis on the ‘impact’ side of risk management, and not enough recognition that blocking is not the only way to reduce the likelihood of bad things happening.

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