This iED summit will be held in Paris. This iED Summit 2015 focused on new and revolutionary ways of immersive technologies Virtual technologies are also discussed to be a new and improved form of learning.
I really like the idea of bringing technology into the classroom. A lot of studies have found that interactive teaching is a more effective form of education. This form of learning allows for a more collaborative social type of learning. Virtual classrooms allow for more interaction between classmates. More on this can be found at summit.immersiveeducation.org/
A topic of this summit was educational software and hardware. Allowing students and prospective learners the opportunity to work in a virtual environment lets the students collaborate but also work independently. Students are able to at any time ask their classmates questions about troubling assignments.
A classroom in India was given multiple computers for children to use. They weren’t really given any instruction on how to use it except on how to turn it on and bring up the internet. What happened next was quite amazing. Students were actually able to learn how to use the computer because they had their classmates as resources.
This summit also addressed the aspect of cultural dimensions of educational technology. Education technology connects students from around the world. Instead of being confined to a classroom the world is now at their fingertips. This gives the students a greater interest in their pursuit of learning.
This video shows a man named Sugata Mitra. He is a leader in educational technology. He shows how beneficial it can be to make learning more interactive and more technological. His video shows similarities to topics talked about at this summit.
This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking
at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For
details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
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