The Catlins Area School, fast carving a reputation for information technology and e-learning, will soon hold an event which will provide a glimpse of how education and technology might combine.
Veteran New Zealand broadcaster and author Gordon Dryden, who has spent the past three decades searching out new methods of learning, will speak at a public meeting at the Owaka Community Hall next Monday.
His address will focus on new methods of learning and will be followed by a presentation from the school's New Zealand Virtual School programme on future technologies for education in this country.
The school has been shortlisted as a possible national trade academy using technology for distance learning.
Deputy principal Allan Jon, the man behind the project and other information technology advances at the school, said Mr Dryden's presentation would be a fascinating insight into how education and technology were evolving.
Mr Dryden is also the co-founder of the Pacific Foundation, a New Zealand-based charitable trust, which has put many early childhood learning methods into practice.
