We’ve learned over the past few years that separating our
learning and thinking into silos is not an effective way to
problem solve and push the limits of real learning. Real world
problems are multi disciplinary, crossing the boundaries of many
people, their expertise, places and time. We need a variety of
people, with different skill sets to pull together as
collaborative teams in order to deeply understand and think
about real world issues. Knowing that I wonder what’s up with
the popularity of Ipads and apps in classrooms? Most apps,
generally speaking, are focussed on a single task.
Multiplication tables. Continents and countries. A single game.
Most of these apps allow the user to focus on a single task or
skill. They don’t generally reach for higher order thinking such
as synthesis and evaluation. Of course there are exceptions.
Calendar apps that allow people to work together. Evernote
allowing us to collect information about topics and share that
with other people. But overall, I don’t think it would