Unfortunately a too much expensive tool for many schools.
However, what if teachers start thinking about such a tool to allow students to learn from each other?
Could anyone "create" a smart table from an ordinary table and provide a different approach to teaching? Ie, one of the tables in the classroom is used as a team work table and materials ( eg, made out of coloured paper) are hidden in the drawer and used creatively and collaboratively by the students themselves?

I've recently been to the Louvre in Paris to realize that most of the people just want to see the Gioconda.

As per the rest of the Museum, many people wander around as if they were merely window-shopping....

A team does as well as you and the team think they can.


This idea is known as “the self-fulfilling prophecy”. When you believe the team will perform well, in some strange, magical way they do. And similarly, when you believe they won’t perform well, they don’t.


The self-fulfilling prophecy is also known as the Pygmalion Effect. This comes from a story by Ovid about Pygmalion, a sculptor and prince of Cyprus, who created an ivory statue of his ideal woman. The result which he called Galatea was so beautiful that he immediately fell in love with it. He begged the goddess Aphrodite to breath life into the statue and make her his own. Aphrodite granted Pygmalion his wish, the statue came to life and the couple married and lived happily ever after.

The implication of the Pygmalion effect for leaders and managers is massive. It means that the performance of your team depends less on them than it does on you. The performance you get from people is no more or less than what you expect: which means you must always expect the best. As Goethe said, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

( from Eric Garner, ManageTrainLearn.com)

Equally, all educators should bear this in mind when dealing with students...

Some more food for thought !

WHY NOT HAVING A BIT OF FUN ?

Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to take part in any flashmob yet.

I think it is a great idea to have fun in a very naive way, and using technologies to get people together