21st century learning – Page 2

Look at Finland’s education!

Since 2000, Finland has won the title as the best education system outperforming Japan and South Korea. I wonder, if Finland has been the top world ranking education system in the world, why every country in the world doesn’t drop what they are doing and adopt their system?

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Steering students with technology

Teaching and Technology in the 80s

I started teaching in 1987 — when teachers checked Apple laptops out of the library. Laptops that must have weighed five pounds, and which needed a 4×4 floppy disc to save material. In those days, I became close to the business teacher so that I could use her computers whenever they were free. That way, I could use them to teach writing to my students. Technology steered my students toward learning how to be better writers on their own.
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