According to a recent study conducted by The Nielsen Company of over 40,000 cell phone bills, the average teenager (13-17) is sending 10 text messages an hour, and the average pre-teen (0-12) is sending 4 text messages per hour. Both are well above the national average.
Furthermore the tendency, at least in the school sector, of limited network access in the mistaken name of e-safety once more limited the wider development of ‘social e-Portfolios.”
Much of this has been overtaken by subsequent releases of Wordpress multi user and more recently Buddypress.
Of course there is an issue as to the longevity of data on such sites (but then, we have the same issue with institutional e-Portfolios and I would always recommend that students retain a local copy of their work).
Whilst students were previously heavy users of Facebook, they were now abandoning it. And whilst there was little previous use of Google docs, his latest survey suggested that this cloud application was now being heavily used.
This investigation focuses on the change of paradigm from institution or organisation-centric learning to person-centric learning and describes the implications of this shift for national software infrastructure.
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