...read this online article written by Will Richardson in the latest edition of Edutopia. He poses some answers to the timely and very important question: WHAT HAPPENS TO TIME-WORN CONCEPTS OF CLASSROOMS AND TEACHING WHEN WE CAN NOW GO ONLINE AND LEARN ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME?
What do you think? If you have 5 more minutes, why don't you blog about it? (Come on...I know you have an opinion!) Here is all you have to do:
- Click on this link: http://www.teachbesttech.org/index.php/itu/comments/the_new_face_of_learning/ which will take you to a weblog that I've set up for this Instructional Technology Update.
- Enter your name, school email and your comments. Then click on SUBMIT. (If you would prefer to post anonymously, you can do that by typing in a pseudonym and a fake email.)
If you've added your comments to the discussion, you've just blogged! Your thoughts and ideas are now available for anyone to read and respond to -- yes, anyone -- a global audience. You can also go to http://www.teachbesttech.org/index.php/itu/ to watch the entire discussion develop.
PS: Edutopia is a publication of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. You can read more about the Foundation here. You can also subscribe to their magazine, Edutopia, for free - paper or electronic copy - by visiting this link. I think there are important articles in Edutopia worth our time to read and think about. I highly recommend it!
(Photo credit: David Julian - http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=art_1649&issue=oct_06)
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