Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Soon to be on my reading list is the new book by Curtis Bonk, who teaches at Indiana University in the School of Education where he is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology. He terms his book, “The World is Open: Now WE-ALL-LEARN with Web Technology”, an education extension to Thomas Friedman’s, “The World is Flat”. In it he covers ten key technology trends (hence the “WE-ALL-LEARN” which are the initial letters of those trends which include, e-books, online learning, wireless and mobile learning, virtual worlds and gaming, open and free software). At the moment he is still looking for an appropriate publisher that will we willing to work in alternative ways, for example, once published he hopes to blog 1,000 words of the book a day.

Will Richardson, interviewed him this evening (or more precisely afternoon his time) on his U-Stream channel, and amid the rather choppy sound, he draws of some of the education examples which he uses in the book. His original thought was to edit a compilation, but decided to write the book himself drawing on the interviews with many educationalists throughout the world.

You can catch the interview below:

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