The Future of Learning
April 11, 2007 – 6:09 pmI’ve been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on.
If I weren’t going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for another conference, The Future of Learning in North Carolina (Durham). Looks like they’ll have stuff about digital classrooms and game design applications to learning. I haven’t figured out how much of that con will be mere hype repetition, but I do think the immersive, informal, interactive approach to education shows a lot of promise. Case in point: I think there’s a lot of interesting and useful work being done for One Laptop Per Child (beyond the hardware, neat on its own). On the other hand, I’m not linking to them today because of what they’ve done to their site home page, which I find much less friendly (however colorful and graphic it now is) than the last time I was there. Trends can be fun, but when they get in the way, they’re just in the way.