There's no way that even the best and fastest research could ever keep up with how we use technology in the classroom. Carson here, at 18 months old is proof of how interactive learning works. This is the first time he's ever seen an iPad. It doesn't take long for him to use it....... Where will this kid be by the time he hits kindergarden? Where will tech be?
Read the full article by Mike Henry from Advertising Age Magazine
OK, I admit it - I don't like so much research to justify tiny institutional changes. I'm not a hippy-dippy anarchist, don't get me wrong, just impatient and frustrated at the pace. Just do a search on EBSCO. You'll find good ideas that took years to 'prove'; yet - what impact have they actually made on education? I like Ken Robinson's call for something more organic: in allowing nature to take its course to as much extent is healthy - doing so generating speedy useful feedback. We're past 'way behind' and falling on our collective faces.
