project tomorrow

"The school’s monopoly on information, knowledge and world experiences is long gone and yet unfortunately, some education leaders still cling to this old paradigm as it represents their ideal of education."  Project Tomorrow, 2013, p.3.

The Project tomorrow report From chalkboards to tablets: The emergence of the k-12 digital learner Speak Up 2012 - National findings //June 2013, seems to confirm the idea that teachers are behind in the utilisation of digital tools and possibilities.

Its interesting to note the difference between students and teachers in the importance given to different digital tools. Well worth a look at the whole findings.

digital tatoos

Digital footprints or digital tatoos .... scary thoughts. These 2 quick videos are enough to make you reconsider what we do online and how important it is to educate on about young people about the choices they make in terms of online posting and the provision of information. It would be a great test to have a class access a search term and talk about how different their results are .... this could also be done using different search engines as a way of illustrating how different search engines affect what information you are exposed to.

Juan Enriquez: Your online life, as permanent as a tatoo

what facebook and Google are hiding from the world.