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Wi-Fi Woods

Posted by michael on Saturday July 5, 2003 @08:47PM from the using-pine-and-elm dept.

Mr]-[at writes "School kids in southern England have been given PDAs and pocket radios to track down and record plants and wildlife, as part of the Ambient Wood Project. The feedback has been overwhelming positive."

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Technology can be a distraction. by metatruk · 2003-07-05 21:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

I know first hand, that technology in this kind of setting can be a distraction to some students. They may want to mess around with the technology rather than learning about what the teachers want the technology to teach the students. But I think this is okay, because it's okay to mess around with technology, right?

So long as the students learn *something* I see this as valuable.