Eton College head urges schools to embrace technology
Britain’s schools have been urged to invest in their technology and teachers by the headmaster of Eton College in order to avoid becoming ‘redundant’.
Anthony Little warned that todays ‘league-table obsessed’ schools risked falling behind unless they were prepared to adapt to new technology.
To achieve this Little calls for schools to train teachers to be more flexible by combining traditional approaches to schooling with modern practices such as online marketing.
Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Little said: "Teachers and parents are understandably worried by the threats and dangers of social networking and the internet. But we should not confuse the medium with the uses to which it can be put.
“Second, we must celebrate the primacy of love over systems. We need to place the development of the person - heart and spirit as much as mind and body - at the very centre of what we do, or our schools will die.
"And to make these things happen we must invest in teachers like never before. The teachers of the future will need to be flexible, innovative pioneers."