This document discusses education and learning in three main points:
1) It quotes "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn" to advocate teaching students in a way that matches their learning styles.
2) It notes that 1 in 4 children have an online presence before birth, showing how digital tools are increasingly part of children's lives.
3) It presents a diagram contrasting formal vs informal and intentional vs incidental learning, arguing that learning takes place through both planned and unplanned means.
14. Law that requires schools to block
sites that are:
•Obscene
•Pornography
•Harmful to minors
(for computers that are accessed
by minors).
Flickr photo by enggul
15.
16. • Organization controls • Learner controls
objectives objectives
• eLearning • Community
• Classes • Playing
Formal Informal
Learning
Incidental Intentional
• Indirect and • Planned to reach
unplanned goals
• Surfing/social media • Reading
• Observations • Coaching
• Mentoring
28. Would you Ban the Pencil?
• A student might poke out the eye of another
student.
• A student might write a dirty word with one.
Or even write a whole harassing note and pass
it to another student.
• One student might have a mechanical pencil
making those with wooden ones feel bad.
• Kids might be doodling instead of working on
their assignments.
Doug Johnson, BFTP: Rules for Pod People and
a Proposal to Ban Pencils (via Blue Skunk)