The ICT4Dev aggregators on technology and learning have been covering some excellent topics over the past few months, and doing a good job of bringing some new commenters into these discussion online.
Here is a series, part of the Educational Technology Debate, on ebooks and affordable access to [preexisting] content, featuring Dick Rowe (Olé!)and Angus Scrimgeour. People still avoid talking about building new materials from scratch – the sort of work that a skillful teacher engages in every week – which is when another leap forward will begin. But they are keen on finding ways to let interactivity and creativity improve and annotate books and class materials.
Do we need a three-legged stool? Will it balance?* What else is missing?
* I can see a whole new series of YouTube videos based on this hook… including everything from architecture to ontologies.
Thank you, SJ! This is totally so funny and serepinditious (sp?).
As Exec.Director of OLE Bolivia I work with Richard Rowe, the author of that article, and as co-editor of OLPCNews, Wayan Vota’s blog, who also is the organizer of the EdTech Debates.
But it was in this blog of yours that I learned about the article, and about this particular debate. Besides the specific points raised (I like to put “people” first), I find it quite amazing that everything is, indeed, connected.