"There won't be ANY grade attached to these tasks," I explained. "Instead, you are going to evaluate yourselves. Then, you will get feedback from me on the first assignment and a peer on the second assignment."
unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.
“Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
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On the whole though, I think it is right and proper that we have this debate and many of your points are important and open up critical distinctions. It is not so simple as to be able to say ‘Robinson is wrong’ but perhaps better to say ‘We need to look at this more carefully’, which you have allowed us to do, so thank you.