How paperless can you be?
Many thanks to Stephen Downes for featuring Richard Wojewodzki’s blog in the OLDaily yesterday. The objective of Richard’s blog TeachPaperless is
to help classroom teachers merge Green Thinking and Interactive Technology into their everyday classroom experience. The result is a classroom that not only uses zero paper, but that recognizes and utilizes the best features of the growing Internet to extend learning opportunities to students. Furthermore, we want to see students benefit from and gain experience in real-life problem solving, task determination, and creative thinking through total immersion in an authentic 21st century digital workplace.
An article in the Australian in the middle of last year reminded us that we used to talk about the coming of a paperless society.The article suggests some things you can do to just monitor your usage of paper, and maybe to settle for using a little less.
Recent advice from the office of the Digital Education Revolution offered the following advice to Australian schools looking to reduce printing costs and their digital footprint. [The classification on the right hand end of the table is an assessment of how difficult this would be to implement].
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I think that teachers and professors could stop handing out articles and reference material on paper, instead they could just put them up on thier website and have students read them or download them onto their laptops before the lecture. Also use of overhead projectors and powerpoint are great for reducing paper wastage.
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