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On Saturday I attended a staff development workshop at the Saturday I work. A number of teachers expressed concerns and confusion about how exactly to use ICT in their classroom. Like in this article, teachers feel compelled to just”stuff” the curriculum with ICT, in order to meet the Syllabus requirements. Our coordinator,however drew our attention to the fact that using multimedia in the classroom does not necessarily mean using computer, it also includes things like CD, DVD, video cassettes, books, newspaper, etc. Another teacher commented that power point presentations are ‘coming out of the students ears’, as she has been assigning every oral assessment they had, in this format for the past 4 years.This is where common sense and knowledge of pedagogy fit. No matter how interesting a teaching strategy, if overused, it loses its effectiveness!!!