Small Hall | reboot11 – 6 comments
Active Learning
report from the frontline of research and practice of mLearning
a talk about current research and practice of learning in the age of social mobile media.
learners, teachers, organizations, and society in general face a huge challenge: how to get formal and informal learning up to speed. Can social mobile media help in this task? Even if all you need to do to find the digital divide is to look in any school.
More info about the proposed talk, I plan to cover different current research projects that deal with informal and formal learning activities. From subjects like science, math, drama, that span game based learning to mobile collaborative laboratories. I want also to actively discuss how to bring sustainable innovation into education. Most schools (kindergarten to university) still operate in the technological dark ages compared to enterprise or even the public sector like the tax office, why is that?
How do we change it or better yet REBOOT the educational system?
Lets figure this out together.
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Very Cool
Im definitely attending this!
Would be great if you would participate in the workshop I have proposed:
www.reboot.dk/page/22439/en
It is a work in progress and open to anyone and everyone who wants to be involved in forming it: europeanpolicyrecommendations.wikispaces.com/Workshop+Series
xxx,
Nadia
Great proposal
I'd really like to hear your ideas on this Daniel, and take part in a discussion, too.
I was really excited about the thinking that I'd read about in a couple of posts around 'Hacking Education' that came about from an NY collective coalescing around Fred Wilson:
1) the original idea: www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/11/hacking-educati.html
2) post event: www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/hacking-education-continued.html
It would fascinating to hear from assembled Rebooter's insights into their country's schools - I'm hoping the situation in the UK public school system is isolated - a prescriptive, centralised curriculum, teaching MSOffice as 'IT', tech budgets spent on 'interactive whiteboards :-(
The educational system does need that reboot...
...and some places are actually trying to do it - unfortunately it takes a very high number of teachers to implement it.
From, painful, experience I can tell you that sometimes we were 2 teachers/student, and had our hands full, and these experiments, besides being very expensive, are usually only tried when you're working in special programmes.
Like illustrated at reboot 8 8.reboot.dk/wiki/Changing_Schools_and_Firing_Minds, a classroom today still, fundamentally, looks like it did 150 years ago.
Do love the proposal!
Great stuff....
Really would have like to be at this session. But have obligations in a parallel one. Hoping the video will be available very quickly.
Wonderful proposal
I went on the website tonight to suggest something a bit but not quite similar. See Empower The Less Digitally Literate