Jamie simply 'gets it' and is able to convey his experience, understanding and insight in ways that are truly palatable and acceptable to the very audiences that need this understanding most.

His work is direct, digestible and readable. Any practicising teacher or educator will find themselves nodding quietly to the truths that are laid out in this title.

From his first chapter "Lifting the Siege" where he highlights the .."observable failure of schools to actually use their network or computers to any menaingful extent because they are not seen as part of the school's primary mission and teachers are ill prepared to integrate them in to their classroom activities", he moves through sound, researched and ultimately truthful mechanisms to allow the reader to implement the undertsandings his work conveys in their own context.

McKenzie makes an excellent and pointed reference to Kevin Kelly's work "New Rules for the New Economy" (99.09). "Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed".

Mckenzie questions how we are to prepare our students to distinguish between the "countless waves and surges", avoiding "churn" but embracing "selective flux". I am pleased to say that he works through a co-herent and reasoned response to his own questions with considerable focus on the realities of the challenges facing the teachers of today and tomorrow.

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