Wednesday, March 13, 2013

There might be a pattern here!

From the University of Haifa we continued to the other high education institution of Haifa - the Technion. There, after a pleasant lunch (we ate a great deal today, but that's another story) we met with Dr. Miri Bark from the Department of Education in Technology and Science. Miri emphasized that the use of technology in the department, and the courses she and others are involved with, is toward active, collaborative, and student centered learning.


These are objectives that even after only two days of our tour seem to be common to just about everyone we've met. (If someone actually thinks that we should be using ICT simply to help kids get better grades on international exams - a not too outrageous possibility - they're certainly not saying this out loud.) Miri gave us a number of examples of how the principles she discussed are actually being implemented. These are impressive and good to learn about, though (have we already noted that it's been two days?) we already have the feeling we've heard much of this before.

After Miri's presentation we met for a very short period of time with Ariella Levenberg who described to us some of the ways that ICT is being implemented in in-service professional development programs.


Because we were on a tight schedule, we barely had a chance to get a taste of the things she described, nor to take part in the discussion that Ariella initiated, asking us to tell her about whether our countries have similar programs and how they're implemented.

Our last stop at the Technion was at the Visitors' Center where we were told a bit about the campus and its history, and saw (at least part of) a short film about the Technion ... and got around to taking our (hopefully daily) group photo.




 

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