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Welcome to Rage Against the Luddites, a wiki set up by ICT and Computing teachers in the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire.
===Teaching ICT and Computing requires a lot of resources, we will upload ideas and resources to share. It also means a great deal of effort to keep up with changing trends and software. We will post links, ideas and suggestions. We will also have a section devoted to 'closing the gap' - improving our own teaching of ICT and Computing.===

===Please note that you are responsible for the content that you post, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License. Please check materials for spelling, punctuation and grammar.===

=What? The name? Why?=

===OK, all ICT and Computing teachers are continually trying to keep up with changing technology, although at times we feel like luddites ourselves. We also have to work against the natural tendencies of other staff in schools, who, like us have really got too much to do to try to learn new technologies. Sometimes it can be hard to overcome these 'luddite' tendencies.===

===On the other hand, don't you just HATE computers sometimes? Not when they are doing what you want, they are amazing then, but when the software won't work, when the system crashes. At those times we just want to "rage against the machine". So, the name of this wiki combines both. Our wish to promote computers with other staff in schools, and to overcome their luddite tendencies, showing them how amazing computers can be - but also our own irritation with their limitations.===