Here’s your challenge

Your principal has just been to a principals’ conference overseas and one of the sessions was addressed by the Minister of Education. Watch this excerpt of the press conference after the Minister’s address:

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Video: Breaking Down the Classroom Walls (0:47)

This really excited the imagination of your principal and he’s returned home with a wild idea in his head. He wants to explore how technology can be adopted in your school to break down the walls of classrooms. He is even willing to find the capital to build an innovative new learning centre in the school which challenges the old paradigms of classrooms being the empire of the teacher. He has adopted this theme song to launch the Break Down the Walls project:

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Video: Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd) (6:00)  Short version (3:49)

Is this a hair-brained idea? Break down the walls!! Fortunately, you have been selected to participate on a special committee to study the implications of managing learning with technology with a view to proposing a new concept for a learning environment at your school. 

The culmination of this challenge will be your final assignment. Click here to read the final assignment.

When you are ready to attend your first meeting, click on Mark Complete (first time) and Next Topic on future visits to this page.