should curricullum drive the technology or vice-versa??

This is an interesting question…. My answer would be technology should drive the curriculum. Why? Because I feel we must have a curriculum that will fully utilize the use of technology in classroom. We can discover new technology that can allow us to improve the environment in school. The government is training our teacher to become tech-savvy. However, are they really benefiting from the training?? I don’t thing so!! This happen because I feel our curriculum doesn’t give room for teacher to adopt technology to the maximum level. Do we need curriculum that is tailored specifically that allow teacher to create a technologically-advanced learning. For instance is the smartboard, we can use it efficiently in classroom because obviously in my view it is an excellent tool albeit the cost is high. During my school experience programme, I went to an urban school situated in the middle of city. The school have an excellent computer lab with broadband connection, however, teachers there told me that it is seldom used because they afraid that students might ‘destroy’ the computers!! How we can inculcate the use of technology in students if we do not allow them to experience the benefit of using computer? Once again, the equipment is there but there is weakness in the implementation process… so, I feel MOE or curriculum board must bear in mind technology when they are going to draft a new curriculum….