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I know that this blog is effectively redundant now, but I just had to write a little blurb about my experience of ICT in a French primary school.

Non-existant.

There it is. Plain and simple. Over four weeks, I saw precisely two ICT lessons, and no other ICT was used in any other lessons. There's something lacking! The teacher's were shocked and amazed when I mentioned that most schools in England have IWBs in every classroom. They were equally bewildered by the notion of ICT suites. Though, that said, I'm an advocate of bringing the computers back into the classroom and out of their little specific ICT room.

One ICT lesson I observed was most interesting. Children were using Google to search online for a historical figure they had been learning about. They were given free reign as to which websites they looked at. The school did have a child-safety block on their internet, but what ensued was just hilarious.

The teacher then mentioned a video about the middle ages and asked children to find it using Google. Pretty soon, the whole class was falling about with laughter, watching the 'Jackass in the Middle Ages' clip on YouTube. Not quite the teacher's intention. But by then, it was time for play, and they all left. ICT skills improved any? I'm not convinced!