The need for schools to prepare for 21st century learning was top of the agenda at this year's BETT conference.
Schools should also break away from traditional classroom and curriculum models, he argued.
The gap between those schools embracing technology and those not is getting bigger, he said.
School becomes first to lift classroom ban on mobile phones and MP3 players-2009
A secondary school is to be the first in the country to let pupils use mobile phones as a learning tool.MP3 players such as iPods and gaming platforms will also be allowed into the classroom at Notre Dame High School in Sheffield.
Senior staff believe the versatile devices should be regarded as small computers for schools to use without extra cost, instead of banning them as most schools do.
Assistant headteacher Paul Haigh said: ‘There’s a huge untapped resource staring us in the face.’
As a specialist technology college, Notre Dame already has substantial IT resources but Mr Haigh believes mobiles can expand the stock available to state schools.
He said: ‘We could never afford to buy every student all the IT and mobile devices we would like them to have. But most students own many of these devices anyway. What’s more, they’re experts in using them.’
School becomes first to hand every single pupil a laptop to use in lessons and at home (that's 1,400 computers at £400 each)
The traditional school exercise book and pen could become items mentioned only in history lessons. Every pupil at Writhlington School is being issued with their own laptop to use in class and for homework.
In what is understood to be a first for British state schools, all 1,400 boys and girls will have a Dell Netbook, worth around £400. These will allow pupils at the school, near Radstock in Somerset, to ‘hand in’ work online and receive
instant feedback from teachers when they are not in the classroom
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