The future, our lives, our technology and our learning
January 31, 2008 by Gareth Davies
Ewan McIntosh, National Advisor: Learning and Technology Futures, Learning and Teaching, Scotland
When you are a teacher, manager or administrator of several schools, it can seem difficult or impossible to keep track of the latest technology, know whether it’s useful for learning and design ways of putting it into practice. For the past two-and-a-half years Ewan McIntosh has been finding out more sustainable ways of doing just that for Scotland’s national education agency, Learning and Teaching Scotland, and has been helping one Scottish Local Authority to successfully harness the latest technology that lends the biggest impact on improving teaching and learning.
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Other presentations by Ewan can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/ewan.mcintosh
Absolutely fantastic. Great assessment of the problems that we all see with VLEs/LPs etc and the ‘locked down’ nature of the way they are seemingly implemented.
The ‘Don’t think - try’ comment is excellent. If we spend too long on the thinking bit the children/students will have been there and back and teachers will be the ones left behind.