6 Ingredients for the 21st Century Classroom -- Campus Technology - 0 views
The 4 Keys to a Successful Online School -- THE Journal - 0 views
The Missing Link in School Reform (August 16, 2011) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1 views
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In Waiting for Superman
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Three in 10 public school students fail to finish high school
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Graduation rates for students in some minority groups are especially dismal, with just over half of Hispanics (55.5 percent) and African Americans (53.7 percent) graduating with their class.1
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This paper offers a critical perspective on popular and political understandings of young people and digital technologies – characterised by notions of ‘digital natives’, the ‘net generation’ and other commonsense portrayals of expert young technology users.
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The specific label of ‘digital native’ derives from a series of articles written by the US technologist Marc Prensky since 2001.
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4 sense thinking is uncritical, episodic, and disjointed, but it is also powerful because it is taken for granted”. Thus whilst the past ten years have undoubtedly witnessed significant changes in the technological practices and predilections of children, young people and young adults, it would seem sensible to reconsider the status of the ‘digital native’ description as a prima facie account of young people’s lives in the early twenty- first century. In particular, there is a pressing need to develop and promote realistic understandings of young people and digital technology if information professionals (especially librarians, teachers and other information specialists) are to play useful and meaningful roles in supporting current generations of young people. Against this background the present paper now goes on to question the accuracy and primacy of the ‘digital native literature’ in reflecting the realities of young people’s actual engagements with digital media and technology. IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL NATIVE DISCOURSE We should first examine in closer detail the broad body of work that can be said to constitute the digital native literature1, particularly in terms of how the conditions, capabilities and consequences of young people’s technology use are portrayed. In this sense, there are a number of differing practices and dispositions that are associated with the digital native condition: i) T
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views
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The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
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Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes?
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Language Castle Blog » Blog Archive » Have You Seen "Driveby Teaching"? It's ... - 0 views
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“Driveby teaching” happens when teachers talk while moving around the room without taking the time to see that the children make the right connections with the words being used.
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Bacteria Could Soon Power Your Fancy New Computer | PCWorld - 0 views
The 100 Best iPad Apps | PCMag.com - 1 views
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