Will the loss of Becta give schools a fresh chance to make technology click?

Will the loss of Becta give schools a fresh chance to make technology click?

Becta, the education technology quango is on its way out. Is this an opportunity to be more creative about how we use computers at schools?

The parents’ evening at our local secondary was going well until we came to the art department. I pointed out that our 12-year-old greatly enjoys making videos — cutting together films taken with a Flip video camera, choosing songs for the soundtrack, and synchronising them with frame-quality accuracy. Could she, I asked, do a film-making course? The school had some computers apparently dedicated to film-making. And it is art. Sort of.