A March 9, 2010, article in the Washington Post was titled, “Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls.” I found the article very interesting and have selected some passages:
A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has [...]
Doug Johnson, the Blue Skunk Blog fame, from TEDxASB last month:
Entertainment tends to be for amusement or diversion, for leisure or for fun – passive. In Doug’s terms, entertainment is ephemeral. However, engagement requires emotional involvement or commitment – it is active.
One way to engage students is through authentic problem-solving. Assignments or projects that simply [...]
While working on another post I came across this video by Sir Ken Robinson. Something to think about…
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