The use of the Internet has changed so much in just a few years. What impact will this have on school-based learning? Is the gap widening between the type of learning that children do informally at home and what they are actually doing in school?
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The launch of FRONTER for every child and their family will enable alot of exciting interaction and research to take place. It gives the children a unique opportunity to ‘teach’ their parents and share their work and experiences in an exciting way.
I agree, Esther. We have got a long way to go, but it is exciting to be embarking on this journey. We hope that children will be more independant in their learning and will be able to extend their learning more into the home giving parents more opportunity to support learning. Also learning should be more purposeful for the children – having a real audience for their work. Thanks for your comment and support, I do hope more parents will enter the conversation about what learning could look like at St John’s.
Web2.0 is fabulous (I laboriously learned & created my first websites in html many moons ago!), but the video is absolutely right about the “rethinking” bit at the end…ethics, privacy, copright.
Another concern is that critical thinking should not be eroded – just because everyone can set up a blog (& of course has the right to do so) it does not mean that they have anything true or interesting to say.
Also Google et al do not cover the whole internet when you use them to conduct a search, particularly they often do not cover authoritative sites (that may only bring back the information needed when the searcher fills in a webform on that page).