That’d prompt me to reflect on my practices, not to judge but to improve. Capturing learning to collaborate/share/improve is a changing trust mindset that I hope is coming.

To me it is also the real attitudinal gulf when we talk about a “digital divide”.

Some learners, often developing learners, share readily and almost unconsciously, they see constant works in progress and seek peer review, good or bad.

While promoting the upcoming School Musical this week, my Year 7′s recorded(pretty dodgy)videos.(yes we snuck a few phone videos in to, the boss wasn’t watching, but it made learning more fun to have a camera in your hand rather than just watching)

The resulting news reports were “rough drafts” BUT the kids sought peer reviews, laughed at the bloopers on the IWB, listened carefully to the feedback (eventually) and raced off to improve them immediately. Very different mindset to editing the traditional news reports they also wrote for the class blog.

The hour was gone, the learning was messy and the kids had fun but to set this up EVERY time with the requisite school approved technology will be labourious.

The masters of their own pocket computers and their captured results far exceeded the more traditional captures using school approved methods. Next week I think I’ll capture the different learning processes instead to show others at my place what I mean.

Great post Chris.

Along the lines of an earlier post, I would like to see “real world tests and examinations”. What I mean by this is allow the kids to do assessments with the tools (internet connected devices) that they will have at their disposal in the workplace. The test would, of course, have to be “tweaked” to ensure that there are no more “recall or show understanding” items. We would have to go much futher up Bloom’s, not such a bad thing I say. Of course, initially a lot of kids would find this a real challenge. Isn’t this what real Assessment for Learning should be though?
We really need to be embracing education rather than just “instruction”. Here in Hong Kong my plumber can probably tell me pi to 30 decimal places and tell me the first 20 elements of the periodic table in both English and Cantonese (yes, they have canto names) but have you noticed that there are almost no internet start-ups from Hong Kong in spite of the money that the government has put into “cyberparks” here? If you do hear of one, ask if the person with the idea was educated here!
Creative, collaborative and communicative people are going to be the success stories of the future (provided they are not sucked into the financial sector as they have been!) From what I have seen of the schools here we are putting too much emphasis on compliant, studious, obedient students who are prepared to read, understand and apply but rarely more than that. Sure, some schools are changing but I am not sure that the world is able to wait for them. Or maybe it will as I indicated in this post.

I have been throwing this idea to staff you a while now. Usually it just gets thrown straight back at me.

Where’s that key for the safe now?

Another great thought-provoking post. I recently purchased an iPod touch..and am often reminded on how powerful a device it is – this usually get