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Media-space communications?

A strategic approach to school communications in the 21st Century
must incorporate appropriate media-space technology. In the
Knowledge-age, a school leader’s communications must include
strategic use of ICT or computer-based communications. There is a
technology push for highly interactive computer-based communication
tools that can effectively break the boundaries that isolate students in
classrooms and that isolate schools. This is known as media-space
communications.

Some classrooms can be like islands, or egg-cartons, isolated from each
other and the world beyond their boundaries. Students enter an
enclosed space and for forty to ninety minutes, all interaction is
confined to the individuals contained within the classroom walls. More
often than not, schools as a whole are also isolated from other schools
and from their communities. External communications, for example,
can be limited to weekly newsletters, student reports and once a term
parent-teacher interviews. Media-space is the term given to the wider
world that can be interacted with through Information Communication
Technology (ICT) media. It opens up the classroom, changing it from a
physically bounded space to a global space.

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