I'm not a computerphobe, I'm a realist: ex-educator

Greg Cudmore

By Greg Cudmore
Community contribution / October 10, 2018

At the time it was amusing; when schools first rushed headlong into the digital age they equipped their ‘state of the art’ computer labs with either PCs or Apple/Macs.

Mostly, there was little forethought into why it was important to spend significant funds on the new technology. What was ...

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Greg Cudmore is a retired teacher with 45 years experience working in Australian Schools. He recently published 'Even More Elephants in our Classrooms (2026) ' (amazon.com), the third in his 'Elephants in the Classroom' trilogy, which critiques contemporary Australian education, a primer for aspiring and practising teachers and for those, like Mark Twain, who never let schooling interfere with their education.

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