1. Students, Teachers, Schools, Technologies
Experiencing Convergence for Learning
Barbara Battista

2. Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)

3. “The death of education
and
the dawn of learning”
Stephen Heppell
CEO, Heppell.net Ltd, UK

4.  Not just a new edition
 Let‟s listen to the young persons
at Robin Hood Primary
School, Birmingham
 EngageMe
 NCSL, National College for School Leadership

5.  Technology for teaching
 Technology for learning
 Technology supporting more
creativity by teachers and
learners
Martin Blows, NCSL, Capital Investment
Leadership Programme, UK, 2009

6. Increasing creativity

7.  Swaptraditional practices with
new technologies or products
 Overhead projector is now a data
projector
 Verbal answers one by one is now
instantaneous response with
„clickers‟

8.  Engage learners by using a
richer mix of media
 Smart boards
 Virtual worlds
 Wikis
 Podcasts
 Text surveys
 Video tutorials

9.  Deepen learning through the
use of technologies
 Better conceptualization of
phases of the moon
 Digital video replay during PE
demonstrations
 3-D animation

10.  Change the
content, process, and
location of learning
 Distributed learning – global
community
 Time-lapse photography for
seed cycles
 Virtual experiments without
exposure to biohazards

11.  Enablelearners to take
control of their own learning
 Project-based learning
 Personalized learning selected
according to abilities
 Open flow of information, all
members create content

12. A lesson we need to learn:
A Vision of Students Today
 Michael Wesch, Kansas State
University, Digital ethnography
Project, October, 2007