ICT, e-learning and the Future Kevin Daly
Eccentricity Making Something Having an audience Delight Passion Collaboration Progress and esteem. - Stephen Heppell ultralab.ac.uk What makes learning great?
How a student communicates, accesses information and learns at home is often very removed from what is done at school Face Book, MySpace, Twitter … Instant messaging Google & Wikipedia Web 2 tools Publishing to YouTube Online gaming often these things are all taking place at once
You Tube Wikipedia Face Book Web Cam Skype Homework School laptop MSN Phone Instant MSG Guitar video
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Classes are still very teacher centric.. when technology is available i.e. netbooks IWBs tablets there are usually prescribed ways, times and tasks to use these…. Social networking sites, YouTube and mobile phones are generally banned by schools…
engaging collaborative world wide links challenge based learning # 2 driver of technology development Gaming
The more powerful technology becomes… the more indispensable good teachers become.