Ed tech central to Obama's recovery plan
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According to William Rust, research director for the IT research and consulting firm Gartner, there is a new digital divide occurring in schools. Whereas this divide used to refer to whether or not students had access to technology, now it concerns whether schools are using technology effectively to achieve results.
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Citing a report by Ian Jukes and Anita Dose of the InfoSavvy Group, Rust said digital native learners prefer (1) receiving information quickly and from multiple resources; (2) parallel processing and multitasking; (3) processing pictures, sounds, and video before text; (4) random access to hyperlinked multimedia information; and (5) interacting and networking simultaneously with many others
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"The biggest shift we're seeing right now is student preference shifting from print to digital resources," Rust noted. "It's all about the web."
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Jonathan Decker
I am a Technology Program Specialist in Palm Beach County, Florida. I have been an educator at one capacity or another for 13 years. I have been a classroom teacher, computer tech and trainer, school based technology coordinator, and now a district level technology integration specialist in one of...