July 24 Pat Redhead

Wow! The wealth of experience and project that Pat has been involved in is amazing. It was really nice to get a look at the background to ICT in the junior stages and how, way before it was mandated, teachers and administrators were experimenting with different programs and lessons. The trend seems to be toward the infusion of ICT but, like many people I am sure, the difference between infusion and integration needed to be explained. I look at it more as if infusion is transparent technology and integration is using a technology as a teaching a tool. It was nice to see how many interesting social studies sites out there for those who teach the curriculum and how they could use them in their classes. Would this be integration or infusion? In many ways the topic of ICT curriculum integration/infusion is something that does not apply to me. I will never use it and will never be involved in curriculum issues, but all the same it was interesting to learn about the progress.