Education and Creativity

Is education killing creativity?
British reporter Riz Khan put together a nice 20 minute interview last week with Sir Ken Robinson, our favorite creativity and education expert (and famous TED presenter). Even if you’ve seen Sir Ken’s 2006 TED presentation, you’ll find this interview an entertaining and thought-provoking refresher. Rizwan Khan is a veteran of the [...]

So you think laptops are the answer

 
Here is another article from Zdnet about computing in education. It is another development of the microsoft surface computing devices that I showed in my vod pod. Just have a look at the video links on the right.
 
September 17th, 2008
Multi-touch smart desks in the classroom
Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 9:57 am
Categories: Computers & Internet, Social [...]

Laptops for All

I think this has a lot of relevance for us as well.
“In the beginning, [with any new technology] we usually just reproduce what we were doing with the prior generation of technology. It’s only after some time you start to see what’s different or what you can do differently and that changes both the earlier [...]

Why use Blogs in Class ?

I recently came across some interesting discussions on the use of blogs within class. We are starting to make more use of these at McAuley and you might like to have a look at these sites if you were thinking about doing the same yourself.
The first one is a general discussion about the rational for [...]