ICT, e-learning and the Future

Kevin Daly 

•Eccentricity•Making Something•Having an audience•Delight•Passion•Collaboration•Progress and esteem

. - Stephen Heppell ultralab.ac.uk

What makes learning great?

How a student communicates, accesses information and learns at home is often very removed from what is done at school

• Face Book, MySpace, Twitter …• Instant messaging • Google & Wikipedia• Web 2 tools• Publishing to YouTube• Online gaming

often these things are all taking place at once

You Tube

Wikipedia

Face Book

Web Cam Skype

Homework School laptop MSN

Phone Instant MSG

Guitar video

Research Experiment

Between 40 and 50 = 3

Between 30 and 40 = 5

Between 20 and 30 = 9

Under 20 ALL

Classes are still very teacher centric..

when technology is available i.e. netbooks IWBs tablets there are usually prescribed ways, times and tasks to use these….

Social networking sites, YouTube and mobile phones are generally banned by schools…

• engaging • collaborative • world wide links• challenge based learning• # 2 driver of technology development

 

Gaming

The more powerful technology becomes…

the more indispensable good teachers become.