This blog will chart the journey taken during some intensive study on e-Learning and will catalogue the changes in the way I perceive of and use ICT in the classroom. As I said in my introduction to the group I have a strong conviction that ICTs should play an increasingly important role in education, starting at early childhood. The technologies we consider to be emerging now will be ubiquitous in these students' lives and they will therefore need to be fluent in their use, their application and in the ability to use discernment on the content they deliver. The reading by Hendron, J. G. (2008) sums this up quite well on page 13, "During their school years and beyond, students will engage in endless opportunities to learn on their own. Teaching students how to self-educate using the Read/Write web is an important new skill." In some ways, that quote could be interpreted to predict the overall demise of the human teacher but I believe that we educators will transform from deliverers of content to guides/co-discoverers of process. The Ray Kurzweil book The Singularity is Near makes predictions which also align with this idea. I hope it happens soon!
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