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students are not waiting for the rest of us to “catch up to their vision for 21st-century learning,”

Middle and high school students’ smart phone access “jumped 42% from 2009 to 2010,”

parents aren’t waiting around either

What Students Want: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

What Students Want: Unfiltered Access

Only 47% of high school students agreed.

in the modern business environment, the desire to learn new things is often trumped by the need to respond to the next item on the to-do list. There are no shortcuts to having high-quality knowledge, but effort spent learning new things effectively repays itself handsomely in the long run.

Multitasking is the bane of modern existence. You cannot maximize the quality of your knowledge if you are doing two things at once.

Stop and organize.

We need to be smart about ensuring we are preparing students to be well-Googled by the time they graduate high school.

There is evidence, however, the slow death of exams is not simply a sympathetic response to quivering students, but to new science around cognition, which suggests the traditional high-stress, all-or-nothing final exam under gymnasium floodlights may not be an accurate measure of learning.

homework provides academic benefit, but only in moderation. More than two hours per night is the limit

high school

Kids slide into the habit of relying on adults to help with homework or, in many cases, do their homework

To make sure mobile devices are used appropriately, schools must set high expectations with clear rules and sanctions. Then, when a pupil misbehaves (and they will), teachers can deal with the behaviour, not the technology.