Computer technology has the power to transform the face of
education, the government believes — that's why it's spending
£1.8bn in the six years from 1998-2004 on information and
communications technology for schools.  But those at the sharp
end of educating children believe it will take much more than
computers and money.  To an incredulous audience at the British
Education and Teaching Technology Show today in Olympia, London,
education secretary Estelle Morris ran a video of the
government's vision of future schools: a Jetson-like, computer-
simulated utopia featuring 'buildings specially designed to
provide light, space and flexible use of ICT... an environment
where learning is encouraged... and class sizes varying
according to need'.  "No school in the country looks like this
yet," said Morris, acknowledging the sniggers of the assembled
teachers and ICT suppliers. "But there's nothing in the video
which isn't already being done in one school or another.  "It's
important to know now where we want to be i