en rik källa av information för den som är intresserad av digitalt lärande, sociala medier och skolutveckling. Jag har knappast hunnit titta igenom den ännu, men jag ser många intressanta rubriker, tips, mini-kurser och spår att följa. Sök!

en rik källa av information för den som är intresserad av digitalt lärande, sociala medier och skolutveckling. Jag har knappast hunnit titta igenom den ännu, men jag ser många intressanta rubriker, tips, mini-kurser och spår att följa. Sök!

Brooks, å andra sidan, menar att böcker slår internet och hänvisar till projekt där man ger bort dussintals böcker till barn från lågutbildade familjer för att hjälpa ungdomarna i dessa familjer att definiera sig som ”läsare” och därmed höja deras skolprestationer. Böcker har stort symbolvärde.

Debatten om internet kommer knappast att avta eftersom internet slukar allt mer av vår tid och kryper allt mer in i skolans värld. Måste det ena utesluta den andra? Som författare tycker jag att böcker hjälper oss att definiera vilka vi är som människor. Men som observatör av den digitala världen ser jag miljoner möjligheter. Både- och, säger jag!

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”We’re in the beginning stages of evaluating the iPad’s impact on education, but already it seems to offer interesting options for group study around a common workspace,” says Tracy Futhey, chief information officer at Duke University, which was among the nation’s first schools to issue iPods to freshmen and make lectures available on the device.

Futhey says many of Duke’s professors already have bought iPads. When the school purchased a handful as loaners for faculty, the wait list grew to six weeks overnight. She sees the most potential for the iPad in science and engineering classes, where group work is the norm.

”Laptops are a very one-to-one experience,” she says. ”The sense here is the iPad could offer a new model for learning with others.”

And sharing with others. Colombian artist Claudio Arango recently downloaded his abstract nude artworks onto an iPad, fashioned a cloth sling that would allow it to hang from his neck, and strolled the streets of Bogota with the device in slideshow mode. After passersby got over their initial shock, Arango succeeded in his mission: creating an interactive art exhibit on a mobile device.

”At first, people thought I was selling something and told me to go away,” Arango says with a laugh. ”But there was that light. And then a recognition of the art. And suddenly everyone was touching my screen, flicking through the images. So very different from an art gallery where everything is ‘Don’t touch.’ ”

He says that what excites him most about the iPad is ”the possibility of inter-relationships,” whether with the general public or his granddaughter, who often curls up on a couch with him so the two can create digital paintings. ”I really like the way the device has a way of connecting me to people,” he says.

Nowhere is a personal connection more important than in the medical arena. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is starting to experiment with the iPad’s ability to better bond doctors with patients.

”It won’t magically solve all our issues, because medical data-entry will still require a computer (and keyboard), but the iPad could be the next evolution in sharing information with patients,” says Darren Dworkin, the hospital’s chief information officer. He says Cedars has a dozen iPads that make the rounds with doctors.

”We’re eager to make the evolutionary step from doctors entering information with their backs to patients to holding a screen that they can then turn around and share,” he says. ”It’s early stages yet, but there’s great potential.”

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