Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation (Live Blog)

Karen Ward and Bill Hamilton from Anytime, Anywhere Learning Foundation is speaking this morning about how to not only have a laptop program but to connect learning to the digital equipment. I joined DA in the AALF as an institution (free).

On their site, they have a response to the New York Times Article on why some schools are dropping their school’s laptop program. In a nutshell it was a lack of leadership and political battles not learning. A lack of leadership will adversely affect any program in education or industry.

3 things needed in a leader:
1. A person with a vision
2. A person with the courage
3. A person with the commitment to stay there for the long haul

Ask ourselves how we hope to see the laptops used. Will it just be for note taking efficiency or do we hope to have deeper use? Ask students like we have what they would like to see done with laptops or technology. I think the results from our survey show they have strong opinions.

It is not about technology, but about learning. I have never attended a conference on pencils, white boards, paper or other teaching device. This is a paraphrase on what Seymour Papert was quoted as saying.

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