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saved by3 people, first bysusan carter morgan on 2008-04-02, last byLinda Nitsche on 2008-04-14

  • It is hard to avoid the conclusion that technology is having a tremendous impact on the thinking about what students need to know for the future.
  • The digital universe where these literacies are evident is far removed from the world in which most parents, educators, researchers and politicians live. It is at best a foreign country and at worse the “dark side.”
  • People don't like to change what they think they know.
  • Given new information to consider, individuals will search their existing mental models to ensure that the new information is consistent with what they know…. If the individual cannot link … new information to an existing mental model, he or she may … discard the information as irrelevant, unimportant, or wrong.
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