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Monday, November 17, 2008
Fostering Learning in the Networked World - NSF Task Force
On June 24, 2008, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Task Force on Cyberlearning published its report Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge. The following is an excerpt from the Executive Summary, written by Katherine Lawrence. The full report is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/nsf08204.pdf. Imagine a high school student in the year 2015. She has grown up in a world where learning is as accessible through technologies at home as it is in the classroom, and digital content is as real to her as paper, lab equipment, or textbooks. At school, she and her classmates engage in creative problem-solving activities by manipulating simulations in a virtual laboratory or by downloading and analyzing visualizations of real-time data from remote sensors. Away from the classroom, she has seamless access to school materials and homework assignments using inexpensive mobile technologies. She continues to collaborate with her classmates in virtual environments that allow not only social interaction with each other but also rich connections with a wealth of supplementary content.
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