I filled in today for a colleague’s client-side web class. It was a last minute arrangement, and I didn’t really have an idea what the students had been working on or covering in the weeks leading up to my lecture. I began by showing Michael Wesch’s fabulous video on Web 2.0. It got a few people talking, and I hope it got a few more thinking.
We had gotten into some coding when one of the girls shouted, “Anna Nicole Smith is dead!”
Another student commented that this was like education 2.0 - the discussion has to adapt to a stream of live data from the real world. My “lectures” are a mashup of info stored in my brain, material from print resources, content from online resources, problems that change as different people examine them and ask new questions, solutions that evolve as new bits are integrated and new angles are uncovered, and the chaos involved in forming all of this into a coherent whole.
Technology in the classroom gives us informational chaos; that chaos is itself is a learning tool.
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