[Yr7-10it] A video about a 1-1 Apple laptop middle school in NYC

[Phil Callil]

Thanks for this, Roland.

There's no doubt that technology has helped to turn this school around.  I'm especially interested in their teachers' ideas about multi tasking.  Research is starting to show that effective multitasking is a myth - it just dissipates focus and concentration resulting in less effective use of time.  This has real implications for learning.  For example, listening to music with lyrics has been found to lessen learning time effectiveness.  

Personally I can't listen to music at all when I'm really trying to sustain concentration on something important  - but maybe that's a generation or personal thing. 

It would be interesting to hear others' thoughts on multitasking.

Best wishes

Phil 




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>>> Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> 09/05/09 1:07 PM >>>
Interesting video link posted by Caroline Meeks, an IAEP project contributor
for Sugar, the operating system used on the OLPC computers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-google-saved-a-school.html?play
Towards the middle of the clip is an interview with the administrator who
can observe the students on their Apple laptops. Its also an interesting
discussion about multi-tasking.

Regards Roland

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