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12 Sep 06

ech-Savvy Students Stuck in Text-Dominated Schools
there is a larger and larger gap between what schools are and do and their students’ lives outside of school.
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- 12th graders view school as less interesting, engaging, and having to do with the real world than 20 years ago
- “These devices can be weapons of mass distraction and kids can tune out if we aren’t engaging students.
- o-developers of the idea of the WebQuest, asks the question, what does school have to offer the student loaded with digital tools?
- we run the risk of alienating our students when we don’t strive to understand the new technologies that are part of their lives.
- Knowing how to help digital kids learn isn’t just an issue of knowing how to use the new tools, but of understanding how the new tools let you do things differently.
- accepting of Diversity
- Basically, there is now a new world to explore
- Growing Up Digital, Don Tapscott (1998) explores the characteristics of today’s generation