In January this year the NSW Department of Education and Training appointed a new Chief Information Officer.
You can read the details in The Australian and at ZDnet.
The previous deputy CIO has not had his contract renewed, and has left the DET. The deputy CIO was responsible for the DET’s all-consuming focus on ‘big iron’ infrastructure, and a hardline against the integration of new devices, such as iPads, on the DET network.
Hopefully, this appointment will see a new pedagogical perspective brought to ICT planning and implementation practices in NSW public schools, where ICT support the curriculum, rather than stifling the adoption of new learning technologies in classrooms.
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