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As one of the people in the video says, "if you aren't connected people think you are negligent" and that bothers me, but it is a reality.

If we are to equip students to navigate a digital world, education ought to be based on assessing students' individual strengths and weaknesses rather than making glib generalisations that mistake using Facebook for technological savvy.

For years, workplace experts have touted the value of multitasking. But today, it's common to hear people complain about the inability to stay on track long enough to read a simple news story. The Internet is a snacking medium; people only consume bits and pieces. Prensky believes employers need to change their workplace culture in order to take advantage of the skills today's techno-savvy employees bring to the table.

Blogs are considered an extension of the classroom and therefore are subject to these guidelines as well as the rules and regulations of Arapahoe High School and Littleton Public Schools.

I constantly meet really smart non-technical people -- doctors, lawyers, teachers -- who have no clue how computers work. They treat them as magic black boxes that randomly break and never make sense. Why? Because software is a fundamentally different kind of system. It does not behave like the other things around us that we are used to.