Pearson just came out with a press release about their new enVisionMATH curiculum, which they claim "meets the iPod Generation on its Turf."
Here's Pearson's marketing video - hard to tell from this how much of the system is book-based, how much is instructor resources, and how much is actual interactive computer materials. But, I keep saying that this kind of stuff is going to be arriving in higher ed one of these days. Read more about the software here.
What will we be doing when THESE students get to College? I hope, by that point in time, we'll have something better than whiteboards and markers. But I'm afraid that math instructors will have to stop being the "nomads" of the college, and get some of their own dedicated computer lab and classroom space first.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
What will we be doing when THESE students get to College?
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They need to put a little disclaimer at the end of that video saying, "Smartboard not included".
I'm left wondering, "Where's the beef?" All I can tell from the video is that the curriculum designers are making the same digital nativist assumptions that half the edublogosphere is making -- namely, the assumption that since kids today have a whole lot of electronic gadgets lying around that they like to use, they must be digital learners -- and that they have mastered all the Classroom 2.0 buzzwords. I was seriously tempted to yell "Bingo!" in the middle of that video.
Show me some real scientific research that shows me that kids will learn better this way, and I'll buy it. Otherwise it sounds like yet another expensive curriculum based on the same old assumptions that have gone nowhere.
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