I’d never heard of Elliot Soloway before, but I find his ideas on incorporating technology into the learning process to be important. Note that I said “into the learning process” and not “into the classroom.” I believe as time goes on we are going to have to get away from education being a classroom-centered activity, and move it out into the world and out into the Internet. Listen carefully to Soloway’s comments about the urgency of incorporating what “the kids” are up to outside of school, what excited their passion, into the education process if education is to continue to be relevant.
Here’s the video (why can’t I post Kyte.tv videos on WordPress without giving up my password ?!?). It’s only about 27 minutes long, but well worth the view. The good stuff kicks in at about 10 minutes in.
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[...] activity, and move it out into the world and out into the Internet.” Professor Rice links to a video of an interview between Robert Scoble and Elliot Soloway. “Listen carefully to Soloway’s comments about the [...]