DaVinci in your classroom by Chris Betcher

I have just discovered this blog authored by Chris Betcher and his great post about DaVinci in your classroom.

At the 2010 ULearn conference he has giving a presentation with 20 supporting slides, where each slide is automatically timed to show for only 20 seconds. This leads to a presentation of exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Here is the summary of what Chris talk was about…

“As a gifted polymath, Leonardo da Vinci stands out as the prototypical lifelong learner. Curious, inventive, creative… All the things we would love our students to be. But how well would da Vinci have survived in today’s typical classroom? If Leonardo was a student in a school today would he have achieved to the same degree?”
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Source: Betchablog