In this four-part series, we have been charting a
course for teachers working in classrooms with tablets. We began by
looking at the
consumption of content – the default uses of tablets — and then progresses through the the
curation of learning artifacts, and the
creation of new projects or activities.
In this final piece, we examine the final of our four Cs: connection —
using tablets to put our students in conversations with fellow learners
of all ages around the world.
With tablets, teachers and students possess a mobile recording and
editing device (text, photos, audio and video), publishing platform
(blogs, wikis, video to YouTube, audio to SoundCloud, photos to Flickr),
as well as social media access point (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,
newsreader apps). This mobile access extends the learning context beyond
the walls of the classroom and the hours of the school day, while the
instant access to content and social networks opens up avenues for
communication and collaboration across distance and time. In this final
piece in our Someday/Monday series, we take a peek into the future of
richly collaborative classrooms and then give some advice on first steps
towards getting there.
How Tablets Can Enable Meaningful Connections for Students and Teachers
