Broadening expectations – enhancing soft skills
[Children are] the first generations to live in an all-encompassing electronic
habitat… to deal with this complex habitat, children develop forms of
cognitive and attitudinal organization that enable them to interpret the world
and perform it … [but] conventional school curricula and pedagogical
procedures are out of step. (Smith and Curtin, 1998, p. 212)
ICT resources, whether hardware or software, can support the creation and
development of ideas if they reflect an approach to open-ended exploration in
design and use. (Loveless, 2002, p.24)