She said that any teacher that has graduated in the last few years should be IT-literate enough to encourage students to use technology for online research and word processing, which may not be the case for teachers that graduated some time ago.

It is up to the individual school to choose its teachers, up to the individual teacher how they teach the curriculum, and up to the individual university in how they incorporate IT into teacher training, she said.

"In order to be approved to teach in NSW public schools by the Department of Education and Training however, teachers need to pass a certain degree of IT literacy, but we don't place that as high in importance as numeracy or language skills and literacy," she said.