Modern classrooms aren’t working for kids, according to Lia De Cicco Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada. “Our schools are like jails--brick walls, colorless, not very engaging or exciting,” she tells the Georgia Straight, days before a Microsoft educational summit in Vancouver.
This grim declaration is a part of De Cicco Remu’s push for pencil-less classrooms. She believes pencils, paper, and chalkboards are all outdated methods of teaching. If De Cicco Remu has her way, “inking”, or using a stylus and a tablet, will be the new handwriting. Also, kids need to have the appropriate products--all Microsoft, of course. (She plugs Office 365 and OneNote as being helpful for classroom settings.)
