Comments on: Smart City, Smart Province…Smart Schools? http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/11/04/smart-city-smart-provincesmart-schools/ Musings about technology and learning... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Getting It… | Whip Blog http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/11/04/smart-city-smart-provincesmart-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-1675 Getting It… | Whip Blog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:26 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/?p=260#comment-1675 [...] We spoke briefly about what they saw in their brief exposure to our school. One had read my previous blog post on how we value technology in our business and government, but not in education.  She noted - [...] [...] We spoke briefly about what they saw in their brief exposure to our school. One had read my previous blog post on how we value technology in our business and government, but not in education.  She noted – [...]

]]> By: Claire Thompson http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/11/04/smart-city-smart-provincesmart-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-1674 Claire Thompson Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:07:56 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/?p=260#comment-1674 Jeff, it sounds like New Brunswick is really leading the charge when it comes to broadband access. Makes me wonder is NBers will ever want to leave their fair province ;) On the school front, access, not to the internet but to computers, really is a key issue. There are a lot of teachers out there who would love to use web 2.0 with their students, but as you say, one computer lab period a week just ain't gonna cut it. <a href="http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/" rel="nofollow">David Truss</a> has written <a href="http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/pods/" rel="nofollow">a few</a> <a href="http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/1-to-1-presentation/" rel="nofollow"> posts</a> that leave me feeling optimistic about a possible solution to your question "So, where does this leave education?" He talks about us being about 5 years away from most of our students bringing Personally Owned Devices (PODs) with internet capability to school. It's not a complete solution, and 5 years is a long time to wait. But it's really gotten me thinking about the potetial of PODs. Jeff, it sounds like New Brunswick is really leading the charge when it comes to broadband access. Makes me wonder is NBers will ever want to leave their fair province ;)

On the school front, access, not to the internet but to computers, really is a key issue. There are a lot of teachers out there who would love to use web 2.0 with their students, but as you say, one computer lab period a week just ain’t gonna cut it.

David Truss has written a few posts that leave me feeling optimistic about a possible solution to your question “So, where does this leave education?” He talks about us being about 5 years away from most of our students bringing Personally Owned Devices (PODs) with internet capability to school. It’s not a complete solution, and 5 years is a long time to wait. But it’s really gotten me thinking about the potetial of PODs.

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