The pictures are not captioned and no children are identified. I moderate all comments, and I edit comments that might give a child’s full name. I also have advice on my “About” page, advising students on how to comment.

Finally, I have the site available before school, and I teach children how to use it while in the classroom. Mainly it is an opportunity to give parents and children an alternative to homework and the paper war, but there is also the potential to teach about information literacy on the internet as well.

Children need to learn about the web with adult supervision. I realise this post is about education in general but I feel strongly that a partnership between home and school can be assisted with technology in a structured environment.

You’re right about school websites – often they just tell us that schools don’t understand the power of online communications and that the first contact a prospective parent might have with a school is that website.

The site is only a part of the picture. I was thinking more of how schools use technology to extend and leverage the resources they have.

I was also trying to make a separate point that the impact of technology seemed to have been left out of the Metro survey when in my view its increasingly important. Presume you have watched the video?

After the posat I came across a school last week where much of the web learning is “behind the wall” on the school intranet where there is more privacy and much good work going on.

However “clues” do surface on the main site and its is clear that much thought has gone into the way technology helps at that school.

Learning N’ Stuff is a rare public example of some of that. In this case the teacher initiated the process and the children in that class and those parents have picked up the ball and are running with it.

However point taken – Thanks for the comment.

Our school website would be testimony to that! Parts of it are down right silly, but what happens in the class is not…. It’s hard to keep students safe if you are a parent or a teacher and we do want them to be safe, sometimes it’s hard. I think all teachers strive to inspire students.

Teaching is not something you stay in if you are not completely lit up by bringing up great human beings who dream of making a better world together. Now that sounds fluffy and feel good but one’s aims have to be lofty.

Don’t we all want to help people go out there and think for themselves and see what is wrong and know if the Emperor is wearing no clothes whilst all those around them are deceived. All Schools want the best for their students, teachers all want to help people become the best they can be.

I’m with the founder of International Education on this one. – J Child