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Tony Searl

The digital classroom - RN Future Tense - 13 May 2010 - 7 views

  • we do a lot of school to students, instead of telling them and explaining to them, what is our vision? Why are we giving them laptops? It's not because they deserve them. It's because we expect something to change in education. Why aren't we telling them these things? Why aren't we sharing our vision with them, because they can help?
  • get kids communicating with one another outside their own circle of friends
  • create challenges on the web for kids to collaborate, that lead to more social interaction rather than less.
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  • challenges for them is, how do they create learning opportunities that are beyond for example, a worksheet, or beyond that listening to the teacher and doing what the teacher says, and they've really worked very hard to develop those skills.
  • exploring what other people are doing around the world.
  • they have to learn about copyright, and they need to learn about cyber safety.
  • they perhaps don't understand the consequences of what they might put up there.
  • 'If games are the answer, what's the question?'
  • having kids make their own games
  • Are you going to sit passively and wait for the information to come to you, or are you going to go out and find it and if you can't find it, you make it.
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    What impact is digital interactive technology having on education? And what will the classroom of the future look like? These are just some of the questions that were raised at the 2010 Australian Council for Computer Education conference.
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