computers in australian secondary schools are less often located in classrooms and more often in computer laboratories than in countries such as canada finland hong kong and norway australia is also a moderately high user of other ict resources such as smart boards but is relatively low in terms of providing email facilities for students and data logging technologies for use in science classes despite their confidence in being able to use ict fewer australian science and mathematics teachers than their peers in countries such as chinese taipei denmark estonia hong kong and israel participate in ictrelated professional development