“Interactive” Software
January 10, 2007 by Graham Davidson
Is it just me, or is everyone else being inundated with colourful brochures from companies selling “interactive” software? This would seem to be the bandwagon to be on at the moment. £100 here, £250 there, etc. and some of them a lot more expensive than that. I would like to know who is actually buying this stuff and where they are getting the money from, because it is these people who are keeping the prices out of certainly my price range. I have no doubt that some of this stuff is very good and would enhance learning and teaching, but until the prices come down, we will just have to make do with what we have at present.
Ah well!!! Dream on!!!
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At SETT this year I bumped into Dick Edie – the Head Teacher in Glassary Primary who had been wandering around the assorted stalls in the exhibition hall trying to sell their wares. He found it very funny indeed that a company could sell interactive resources to help kids learn how to count coins. It struck him (and me for that matter) that giving the kids the coins would a) be cheaper, and b) give them ‘real’ experience of handling money. Sometimes technology goes too far, and is completely pointless.
The reason things are so expensive is simply because they don’t sell enough of them, compared with the amount of time it has taken to develop them. I always love the fact that on closer inspection the testimonials are usually from people that got given it for free. There is of course great stuff out there for free at the moment, and the more people share, the better?