Comments on: Learning is Social , Teaching Isn’t http://www.davidworlock.com/2010/01/learning-is-social-teaching-isnt/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter McKay http://www.davidworlock.com/2010/01/learning-is-social-teaching-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Peter McKay Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:16:52 +0000 http://www.davidworlock.com/?p=237#comment-83 After a good few years of not attending BETT I found my visit to the exhibition close to inspiring. I recognise all of the comments you make as being part of my response to the event. And all of this in stark contrast to the moribund feel of the London Online Information event in December. I am sure there is still a trek through the foothills of “technology” to be done but already this world is ready for community and interaction. since it is a world that is largely peopled (the pupils) by digital natives and even pre-schoolers who have never known a world without the iPhone, the revolutionary turn of the wheel of change is a welcome inevitability. (Tortuous pun fully intended) After a good few years of not attending BETT I found my visit to the exhibition close to inspiring. I recognise all of the comments you make as being part of my response to the event. And all of this in stark contrast to the moribund feel of the London Online Information event in December.

I am sure there is still a trek through the foothills of “technology” to be done but already this world is ready for community and interaction. since it is a world that is largely peopled (the pupils) by digital natives and even pre-schoolers who have never known a world without the iPhone, the revolutionary turn of the wheel of change is a welcome inevitability. (Tortuous pun fully intended)

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