TALK about it. For most teachers, the new skills they must learn are hypertext design and graphic design . Just as it's hard to coach a game you've never played, most teachers need to surf the Web with their eyes more open to design. Face to face interaction between teacher and student and among students is still crucial and is still central. In the classroom supported by Ricci Street, teachers can take questions, get formative feedback, demonstrate techniques, supervise student groups, evaluate student presentations, bring students to consensus on important class issues.
Information transfer can occur online outside of class at the students' convenience.
The ideas on this page are meant to be provocative. Let's TALK about it.