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Training  >   Article  Intel keeps teachers in touch  By Eric
Wilson June 8, 2004  Intel is making a generous and very astute
investment in the NSW and Victorian public school systems: it is
providing teacher training that is bound to accelerate the use
of PCs in education. But its "Teach to the Future" program isn't
about imposing a set curriculum on students through the latest
e-learning platform. Instead, it poses essential questions that
are answered by students using computer-based activities.  "The
essential question is the key to the whole thing," says Cecilie
Murray, manager of e-Learning at the Victorian Department of
Education and Training's research and innovation division.  "We
use the cluster model, with schools working together and
teachers working together," Murray says. "What they are being
asked to do is think more deeply about the content and present
it in a different way.  "The course is also about encouraging
deep-thinking sk