In one of his pieces Mark Pesce (Hyperpeople blog) remarks that nowadays a classroom is an anomaly to kids. It is the only place where connectivity is low, where connectivity is not used for the primary process. Everywhere else they use mobile phones and the Internet to connect and share.
It struck me as one of the best examples of the gap that hyperconnectivity has created within a generation.
Fortunately there are some rare examples of new thinking in schools.
In a college in my neighbourhood a professor in laboratory technology uses a wiki to educate his pupils. They have to fill the wiki with facts about a certain subject, by experiment, by discussion, by finding references, working in groups. The most interesting part is how the professor used the edit-tracking inherent to the wiki as a means to follow the progress of his students. He can value their individual contributions by monitoring the changes and discussions.
Hyperconnected learning. Interesting.
