[LINK] Apple iPads for Victorian School Students

[Tom Worthington]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 03/06/2010, at 7:42 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> Students are not passive consumers of information, just looking at 
>> a screen: they are actively creating information and interacting
>> with their fellow students.
> 
> Not to discount the accuracy of how you describe what students do
> currently, Tom, but is this necessarily how things will work in The
> Future[tm]?

Sorry, I was just talking about my Green ICT students and the others 
doing collaborative e-learning courses: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/collaborative_e_learning/>.

This is not how education is done in a typical university course, or 
school, at present. However, I think it will catch on. The students who 
do it like it and it makes life a lot easier for the teacher.

> Did I mentioned that I can still remember how to un-jam an IBM model
> 26 card punch? ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has the manual (non-electric) card
punch I used to use on display in a glass case in their foyer. This
machine may be obsolete, but the format is still used. For example the
Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre Darwin issues warnings in upper case, 75
characters per line, which could have come from a card punch:
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/2010/06/volcanic-ash-advisory-from-darwin.html>.


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