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“The convergence of location-based media phones and multi-player gaming into will be the next big thing in handheld computing, producing innovative mixed-reality games of exploration and discovery that combine indoor ‘control centre’ and outdoor ‘cityscape’ activities.”
— Professor Mike Sharples, Director, LSRI, Nottingham University 9 months ago
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Come on, what we routinely call ‘education’ is in fact nothing more than an indoctrination into a set of ultimately useless social customs. Whatever useful knowledge is taught in schools comes spoon-fed without any explanation at all. Can you imagine a school teaching *critical thinking*? Or what science is actually about? Or at least what mathematics is *good for*?
And guess what, the way kids learn when left to their own devices has been studied for decades (hint: look up ‘constructivism’ on Wikipedia). All the “educational system” needs to do is to stand back a little and settle for providing guidance. Trouble is, that would clash with the modern society’s obsession with control.
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“This is the third year in a row that mobiles are a part of the Horizon Report, and their importance for education can no longer be ignored, really. However, the key trends I found to be most important have to do with teaching and learning, and research. With regards to teaching and learning the report states (p. 7):
“There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy; and Students are different, but a lot of educational material is not… Clear approaches to assessing emerging forms of scholarly practice are needed for tenure and promotion. Students who are living and learning with technologies that generate dynamic forms of content may find the current formalism and structure of scholarship and research to be static and “dead” as a way of collecting, analyzing and sharing results.”
“There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy; and Students are different, but a lot of educational material is not… Clear approaches to assessing emerging forms of scholarly practice are needed for tenure and promotion. Students who are living and learning with technologies that generate dynamic forms of content may find the current formalism and structure of scholarship and research to be static and “dead” as a way of collecting, analyzing and sharing results.”
“It’s no secret that today’s wired learners have better technology in their back pockets than they’re offered at school. It’s also clear that students are much more inclined to engage these devices than take in the sage-on-the-stage teaching models of yesteryear.
So why aren’t we making use of the technologies our students actually enjoy and use?
The answers to this and other future ed tech questions are found in the 2009 Horizon Report…”
So why aren’t we making use of the technologies our students actually enjoy and use?
The answers to this and other future ed tech questions are found in the 2009 Horizon Report…”
“..real-time access to education and information 24×7. With global access to the best minds and teachers becoming available via the Internet, the expense and inefficiencies of traditional educational institutions are soon in for a major challenge from the virtual realms of the broadband Internet versus the physical benefits available to students’ physical attendance in a campus setting.”
qualcom snapdragon
10 months ago
2009
10 months ago