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Title: Exploring the Future of Learning - SALLY HICKS, Duke University Post by: Mark David on April 28, 2007, 11:02:36 AM If someone from a century ago were suddenly transported into today’s home, they would be confounded by the way that technology has transformed it. The teen-ager IMing friends, a college student visiting the online world Second Life or dad checking his work e-mail would all seem bizarre and alien. But they’d probably feel pretty much at home in a school classroom: The teacher’s still up front, talking to students in desks who are writing notes with pencil and paper. Bridging the gap between those two worlds — the dynamic, changing technology children use at home and the relatively unchanged classroom — is the subject of a conference at Duke this weekend called “The Future of Learning.”
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