My favorite quote: "Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch."
The point at which kids learn is when they go into their community and research
noteworthy historical sites to understand their significance.
What the mobile phone added was an immediacy to the task at hand. Was it
imperative to the learning process? Probably not. But did the QR creation make
the project more interesting, more relevant to their lives, and thus more
personal for students? That’s what educators are betting on.
When the child takes a picture with a phone, the child can then integrate the
picture into an artifact that also contains a concept map, an animation, etc. In
fact, the picture can be imported into a drawing program, then labeled with
text. So it is more than a camera.”