Comments on: Forget a Smart Board – I want to teach with this. http://www.ourkids.net/blog/sixth-sense-teaching/ Helping families choose private schools and summer camps Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brad Ovenell-Carter http://www.ourkids.net/blog/sixth-sense-teaching/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Brad Ovenell-Carter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:30 +0000 http://www.ourkids.net/blog/?p=1566#comment-212 An amazing presentation. I showed this to my students back in May and they said that while some of it was pretty cool--dialing (there's a words that doesn't quite work anymore) a phone on the palm of your hand, for example--some of it was unnerving. They didn't want anyone projecting a tag cloud on them! And they wondered if one can have too much information. Good data might be useful in picking out toilet paper, but they sensed a risk in becoming too reliant on the data flow and not developing enough independent thinking, judgement and risk-taking. There's a bunch more commentary at the <a href="http://isabc2009.ning.com/video/imagine-a-different-world?id=3139185%3AVideo%3A325&page=1#comments" rel="nofollow">ISABC Ning</a> An amazing presentation. I showed this to my students back in May and they said that while some of it was pretty cool–dialing (there’s a words that doesn’t quite work anymore) a phone on the palm of your hand, for example–some of it was unnerving. They didn’t want anyone projecting a tag cloud on them! And they wondered if one can have too much information. Good data might be useful in picking out toilet paper, but they sensed a risk in becoming too reliant on the data flow and not developing enough independent thinking, judgement and risk-taking.

There’s a bunch more commentary at the ISABC Ning

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