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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