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September 29, 2004
Live in Cambridge: Tim Berners-Lee on the Web in Education
Right now I'm blogging from the MIT Technology Review Emerging Tech
Conference in Cambridge, and we've just heard from Tim Berners-Lee,
inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim gave a rapid-fire 30-minute talk
about the semantic web, and then had a one-on-one conversation with Bob
Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and co-founder of 3Com. I'll post an
extended blog entry about Tim's presentation, but for now I wanted to
share a quote he gave on the role of the Web in education:
What I'd like to see happen: I'd like to see lots of curricula like the MIT open courseware initiative being picked up by K-12.... The tricky thing is that when you try to put down things like encyclopedia articles, like Wikipedia, you really need to keep education materials sown together. So I'd love to see a student be able to fly through this courseware, maybe in 3-D, following his or her interests. I know it takes a huge amount of efforts to keep these things [like Wikipedia and the Open Courseware Project] up to date, and I'd like to see teachers help contribute to it....
Students can work together when they can interact with simulations, with
teachers, but particularly with each other. And for that we need lots of
tools, lots of standards, lots of technology… There's lots of work to do
out there.... -andy
Posted by acarvin at September 29, 2004 9:32 AM
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