Interesting group of visitors in eLearning Lab today. Thomas Ryberg was hosting a visit by a group of ICT and media consultants from all over the country. They all work with taking ICT into use in schools; some as instructors; some as ICT & learning-experts in schools; some as trainers of teachers, etc.
We had good discussions about challenges and opportunities in working with the so-called ‘digital natives’. Identification of the rigth level of technical competency seems to be a shared concern for many of the participants - what do young learners need to know about the technology and how it works? and when is it more important to be able to do things, rather than to understand why and how it works…?
Also the qualifications of the teacher is in focus, and the question of how to find the best way of educating teachers to use media and ICT in pedagogical sound ways. Lots of shared interests, in other words :-)
