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Digital Natives, Generation-D (digital), Nintendo Kids, the MTV generation, whatever term you chose to describe them, today's youth has grown up with an uprecedented access to and appetite for technology and new media.

Digital Natives, Generation-D (digital), Nintendo Kids, the MTV generation, whatever term you chose to describe them, today's youth has grown up with an uprecedented access to and appetite for technology and new media.

The challenge facing educators and trainers is to identify learning strategies that are appropriate for Digital Natives, recognizing the different ways they process information and developing learning tools that maximize the potential of their unique cognitive approach.

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The (UK) Open Universitys OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The (UK) Open University's OpenLearn Welcome to The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world. You are in the LearningSpace where Open University learning materials are freely available for you to study in your own time, away from any formal teaching environment. Visit the LabSpace to share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, add examples... and then of course, place it back for others to benefit! | Arts and History | Business and Management | Education | Health and Lifestyle | IT and Computing | Mathematics and Statistics | Modern Languages | Science and Nature | Society | Study Skills | Technology |

Mechanisms, strucutures 3D drawing http://www.animatedworksheets.co.uk Site dedicated to visual understanding of difficult concepts. These animated web pages will help pupils to understand the concepts of mechanisms and perspective drawing in an easy to understand format.

While it’s obvious that companies should source talent from outside their own walls, most are too conceited to bother - how could their customers know more about their product than they do?

What will happen when the revolution in media production - in the form of blogs, citizen journalism sites like OhMyNews, peer-produced knowledge factories like Wikipedia and collaborative news filters like Digg - makes its way into product design?

A MacArthur funded study was just released regarding the activities kids are involved in online.  It’s an interesting read for all educators and parents.  They conclude that the “hanging out”, “messing around”, and “geeking out” that kids do online helps students gain media literacies and skills they will need to fully participate in the 21st Century society.