Learning in the New Millennium
Short Findings Summary
individual identity matters
virtual learning works and can cross age, gender and ethnic boundaries
participation is not interaction and it is participation that is vital
we all need an audience for our work. This is specifically true of children.
asynchronous communication which gives time to reflect, and to contribute works better than synchronous
bandwidth needs to be symmetrical (VDSL not ADSL) to allow full participation
facilitation and mediation are essential for successful online learning communities to develop and sustain
authoring and annotating are needed as well as browsing and selecting
access needs to be anywhere, anytime, on any device so standards must be open
children are generally massively under challenged and thus many learning problems are due to boredom
children can and do multitask
Software should be used to empower participants as contributors, not just to explore other's work
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