Dick Sblog » futurelab; learning http://dickwillis.edublogs.org Words from a man with passion about online educational collaboration Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 There’s nothing new under the sun http://dickwillis.edublogs.org/2009/06/19/theres-nothing-new-under-the-sun/ http://dickwillis.edublogs.org/2009/06/19/theres-nothing-new-under-the-sun/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:20:11 +0000 dickwillis http://dickwillis.edublogs.org/?p=86 Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “there is nothing written that has not been written before”. I’ve just had an illustration of this in a newsletter from Futurelab. It describes one of their programmes, Digital Participation, which “is designed to devise, pilot and review practical classroom approaches that can support children to create as well as communicate using ICT; in other words, be active participants.”

Well, there you go….

Way back in the 90’s, in educational internet history, the Web for Schools project demonstrated this very fact. We gave our students the tools, the freedom and the support to create and off they went. They were active participants; self-motivated and self-directed learners (there weren’t any tools then, they just had to learn raw coding) and they created lots of interesting. And what’s more, they did it collaboratively, in teams.

There’s nothing much new under the sun.

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