The One Laptop Per Child initiative in particular gathered significant publicity and hype for its admirable goals, but people implementing it in many countries appeared not to have thought through the professional development teachers would need or, even more importantly, a redesign of the schoolingmodel itself to leverage the considerable benefits that digital learning can deliver.
"We need to see whether a new model of schooling, sharing across sectors, could help us achieve higher standards, better facilities and a better use of resources, " said Mr Hain.