Dick Sblog

I’m grateful to the BBC Digital Planet podcast for alerting me to Peter Norvig’s address at the Association for Learning Technology’s conference on Learning for the social networking generation. Peter is the Director of Research at Google. His conclusion is that most education should be:

1    Centred on engaging, real-world projects
2    Explored in teams
3    Teachers are facilitators and can point to theoretical knowledge where it is required, which is less often than you would think
4    Different students learn differently; but let them figure it out from a world of information. Don’t create materials ahead of time.

Now, this seems pretty similar to the ideas that I’ve been promoting through this blog for a while. It’s good to know that I’m not alone or utterly off the wall.

You can see a recording of the address at the link above, it runs for just over an hour.