[LINK] Library naming (was Apple iPads for Victorian School Students)

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:31 PM 16/06/2010, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> > outcomes. Also, it can also sometimes lead to inefficiencies. It's
> > complex system.
> >
> > Jan
>
>That's what happens when you remove teaching from the education process.
>
>Students learn best when they are taught. Take teachers out of the
>process and you get a much less than optimal outcome.
>
>There is no reason why the students' needs can't come first. But
>teachers are better suited to do that than students. Students are ignorant.
>
>Just because some teachers and schools don't put students' needs first
>doesn't mean you get rid of teachers and schools.

Hold the bus (no pun intended). No one said there were no teachers or 
schools. The original issue is how you design what has traditionally 
been a library into something that addresses student needs and a new 
teaching and learning paradigm. Teachers are involved, for sure. 
Learning packages are designed by teachers as far as I understand. 
Teaching is done 'to' someone where as learning is done 'by' the 
student. It's a different world, BRD.

Jan


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