Ms Jillian Dellit
Jillian Dellit is the Director of The Le@rning Federation Secretariat. Over the past nine years she has worked in the area of technology-related change within education and is a strong proponent of using ICT in education. She established DECStech 2001 to provide technology infrastructure to South Australian schools when she was manager of training and development for the South Australian Education Department.
Jillian has an MA in Information Studies and a solid education background, having been an English and history teacher, a teacher-librarian, a lecturer in children’s literature, an affirmative action coordinator and a principal.
Abstract
Wild erractic fancy?
Schooling links the future and the past. The schooling process must conserve and it must ensure society is transformed. This paradox puts particular strains on all who work in the sector – including officials and teachers. Over the last decade Ministers of Education have collaborated to ensure schooling in Australia and New Zealand can, like industry and other public sectors, take advantage of the capacity of information communication technologies to drive change, including customised rather than mass education. Are we making progress? Do we have too much change or too little? Are we caught in ‘the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal’ at the expense of ‘the vision splendid’?