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Vicki Davis

ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key? - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • They're very self-motivated.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
       
      Quite the opposite of what many are saying -- I agree with this.
  • This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse.
  • This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and teen years and young adult years
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  • Because they have a combination of people they know face-to-face in the real world and people they don't, (those of the Net generation) get a lot of chances to bounce ideas and to test out things on a social network that they probably wouldn't do face-to-face.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
       
      And we need to make networks so they can bounce of ideas related to a novel or something they are learning in school too.
  • Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have grown up with the Internet, not to mention cellphones. In Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation (Palgrave Macmillan), he helps parents understand social networks. His advice: Talk to your kids, learn the technology and don't panic. USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum spoke with the author.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    Alice shared this earlier, but I went back and added annotations AND the tagging standard -- this will show up in the links and make this article rise to the top as we discuss it.
Thomas Ho

Epsilen Environment Home - 0 views

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shared by Thomas Ho on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • What Is Epsilen? Label Epsilen places social networking and ePortfolios at the center of global eLearning, creating a new environment for the next generation of learners and professionals. Described by some users as an "academic Facebook," Epsilen connects peers, enabling meaningful knowledge and objects exchanges.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 29 Mar 08
       
      I am trying this out with our college juniors/seniors who are either looking for internships or permanent jobs. Normally, registration is restricted to oNLY .edu email addresses, BUT I might be able to get permission for K-12 educators to try it out IF they don't happen to have .edu addresses.
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