John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play
Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or urlQ&A: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning - 0 views
-
-
in the past, it was likely to be very hard to find other people around you with your specialized interests. For example, when I was obsessed with building transmitters and radios as a kid, there were maybe five other kids in the entire state of New York who were also designing electronic equipment. I had no cohort group. Today, no matter how specialized a kid’s interest is, he or she will find a cohort group. When my godson was 9, he became fixated on penguins. He went on the internet, and he found himself a group or a collective that was deeply engaged with penguins. I said to him one day, “Well, who is this group?” And he said, “Well, they have a funny name.” And I said, “What’s that?” And he said, “Johns Hopkins!” He’d locked into a research group at Johns Hopkins! Yes, as a 9-year-old.
-
I personally feel that in order to get hooked on something—well, that’s the role of a great teacher, a great mentor. The role of the mentor is to get you to discover things you might not actually know you were interested in, to confront topics you may not be very good at understanding, but once discovered, you will.
Website Credibility Determined by the Search Route » Spotlight - 0 views
Teaching Students to Be Multimedia Storytellers | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning - 1 views
The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning - 1 views
Ten tips for mastering the iPad | Tablets | iOS Central | Macworld - 0 views
-
Instead of paging through home screen after home screen, I use Spotlight as a virtual keyboard launcher.
1 - 11 of 11
Showing 20▼ items per page