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Digital media supplies information, but it also shapes the process of thought. 

My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.

Literary figures are openly admitting that they cannot engage in sustained critical reading, in a sense, they can no longer read for a purpose

Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends

the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.

6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

careful reading can advance great writing.

Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules

What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,

Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. —Neil Postman

If we see technology simply as additive, our questions will be about the technology

it's about addressing the new needs of modern learners in entirely new ways