This document discusses the purpose and challenges of laptop learning seminars at Castilleja School in August 2010. It notes that laptops can be used for both intellectual exploration and mass distraction. The big question is how to use laptops and other technologies to personalize learning, manage information, engage with issues, publish work, build things, have fun, develop empathy and awareness. It also references challenges teachers may face in using new technologies in the classroom.

1. Castilleja Laptop Learning Seminars August 2010

7. the 'diaper skyper'

8. Why?

9. Why ...are we here?

10. Why ...laptop learning?

11. "laptop is a personal laboratory for intellectual exploration and creative expression" ~ Dr. Gary Stager

12. "...laptops are instruments of mass distraction" ~ NPR piece from last spring

13. Big Question... "how can we use our laptops (and other technologies) to personalize learning, manage complex streams of information, interrogate resource validity, engage with local and global issues, publish for a large audience, build cool stuff, have a bit of fun, develop empathy, network with others and expand our cultural competencies and awareness?"

14. "The teacher knows almost as little how to use [it] as his pupils" ?

15. "The teachers knows almost as little how to use chalk as his pupils" Image courtesy of World Bank Photo Collection. Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2760560588/

16. Historical innovations in educational technology...

17. the written word