Saturday, October 13, 2007

Teaching Teachers a Thing or Two

KRISTIN MacFARLANE reports in The Daily Post in New Zealand about children teaching teachers a thing or two. Here is as extract from the report:

"Whiteboards are the new blackboards and children at Owhata Primary School are about to teach the teachers a thing or two about how to use them.

They're set to front a national conference to show teachers from around the country how to use interactive whiteboards."

The thing about these interactive boards are that they can play learning games on the whiteboards and can project websites or their own work. Is this not wonderful? The whole thing about learning is to be able to learn. People describe this with a big word called "adaptive". It is all about being able to learn what one needs at that point which is relevant for the moment. With interactive online learning becoming open to students, they will not be constrained just to their text books.

Owhata School: GREAT WORK!

Click here to read the complete report.

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