We are not all in favour!

As a teacher one of my daily battles is with discipline. We already have an extremely fragile set of rules about mobile phone use in class - staff apply it inconsistently - and giving students a cast-iron excuse is just going to make things worse - this is my primary concern.

Now that I've calmed down a little I'd raise these points:

How will this be funded? Once again, ICT gets priority over books (several thousand years of user-testing there), materials, trips and many other vital purchases in an environment where we're bound to see cuts one way of another no matter what the government says.

Training - if we are going to make use of this stuff, can we this time be trained, or will it end up like the IWBs, not working half the time and when they do we use them like blackboards anyway.

Preparation of lessons: After we've had the training will we then be given additional planning time to include the technology in our lessons or will someone at least give us access to some decent ready-made materials? And I don't want page after page of un-annotated web links to spend the next summer holidays ploughing through.

If one or two teachers want to try this stuff out in a contained way then that's not a problem - it's when we get these edicts telling us we need to use these new methods - all of us, now - that the resentment rises. Please can we have some way of phasing these kinds of developments in instead of landing them on our heads with no consultation.

Marshal Anderson (Teacher)