With proper use of information and communication technology, ICT, we can industrialize instruction by making the delivery of education more effective, and by offering instructors tools that alleviate routine things such as grading of papers. ICT has the potential to industrialize instruction.

We have not, however, seen the right applications and services, which really make the difference in education. On the contrary, sometimes the use of ICT in education has resulted to worse outcomes.

It is clear that we have to talk to the students the language they understand. Hence the tools of the social web must be used. Our challenge is to find the proper way to do this.

This talk was a part of the program of a meeting organized by the French ministry of education. The main point here was to get teachers more resources to make good use of the social web and of tools such as YouTube. That was adopted as a recommendation, to the European Commission, by the meeting.