BETT Reflection 1: John Davitt

Just catching up on some scribbled notes from my project planning book while watching John Davitt on the stand at the LEARNING ELSEWHERE stand in association with Stephen Heppell's HEPPELL NET

He was demonstrating his LEARNING SCORE resource with a group of primary school children: the context was learning how to play chess.
A few quotes I liked were related to a diagram which showed the growth in technologies from the slate "which had an undo command ten thousand years ago..." to the iPhone as a rising line, and personal development in competency as a curve, and said:

"the powerful thing about a curve is that it will always 'do for' a line in the long term...."

Also used the phrase "surfing the capability wave"

Referred to the "active-passive" continuum and how technology allows learners to move from "consumers" to "producers": editing movies, creating podcasts and sharing resources online with their network of contacts.
Also used a grid of sensory experiences in the classroom, and how a lot of learning comes from "seeing" and "hearing", which produces a "Bermuda triangle from which no learning emerges"...

Engaging stuff....

Which examples of that phenomenon have you come across recently ??

Also check out OLLIE BRAY's blog post on TXT TOOLS and their usage in education..

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