Creative uses of ICT for real learning

04-May-2006

If every school lesson was like this I would be much more confident about the future of education systems.

An instant answer to my last post in the form of an article cited in OL Daily (welcome back Stephen). The Becta guide cited in the article talks of a lesson using ICT in a UK school.

For today's class we will be building a 3D map of the village. First, we'll collect pictures, sounds and anything else of interest from each street. Split into teams of four and take your camera-phones with you. By mid-day we will have built our own virtual map, and then we can get together to plan which parts to research further.

As Stephen says:

Forget math and geography and one-hour classes. Move out of the classroom and into the real world. Connected and mobile, integrated into society and learning about it.

If every school lesson was like this I would be much more confident about the future of education systems.

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Graham Attwell; 04-May-2006 12:12:32;