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I believe that IWB’s are an asset to the classroom. They can seamlessly use web 2.0 applications to engage students in creative and constructive lessons for learning. The important element in this however is the training of the teacher using the IWB. Without training the user, the IWB becomes an expensive video projector or an expensive PowerPoint presentation tool or a very expensive hat rack.

with a pilot who had a 747 placed in his driveway as an incentive to fly a bigger plane without training?

Kids understand IWB’s and want to use them. It’s the adults who need to be brought along. Creativity should be the focus and remembering should be the support.

The fundamental shift that Sir Ken is talking about is more similar to discovery based education. Just like google which allows its employees to use 20% of their time to pursue any pet project, I think the education system should have 20% time free time for kids to to pursue any idea or vision or dream maybe within school or outside the school. This is one way to balance the rigid structure of the current learning against total flexible system where its easy for kids to be lost without learning some valuable knowledge. So the main question is should we allow 20-25% of time as free time to pursue their dream ? I think it is yes

Twitter's magic - quite aside from the obvious networking potential - is in its simplicity and relatively no-frills design and application.

ten things I love about Twitter as a teacher and ELT materials designer:

Only if the desired forms of learning in the classroom can be assisted by having a laptop or other electronic device at the students' disposal.

Learning focuses on the student, not the teacher.

So "learning" as it is usually found today -- in lectures, video, and web experiences -- is viewed as transmitting information from one person to another

We neglect important high-level skills such as problem solving

teachers’ jobs will also be quite different from the way they look today—and if we do this right, they should not just be different, but they should also be a whole lot better, as it liberates them in many exciting ways.