... "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning--increasing will determine who flourishes and who flounders.
Dan Pink, author

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Young Canadians in a Wired World

Young Canadians In A Wired World: The Students’ View is a nationwide investigation of Internet use among Canadian youth, exploring what they do online, how they perceive the Internet and what they know about it. These survey results reinforce the fact that Canadian youth are highly engaged participants in the online world. However, the data also presents findings which show that, in this age of connectivity, there is a substantial discrepancy between how parents see their children using the Internet, and what their children are actually doing online.

The Whole Child Approach to Learning

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 15:19 -- admin

The American Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) calls on parents, educators, policymakers, and communities to join forces to ensure our children become productive, engaged citizens. Our children deserve an education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential 21st century skills of critical thinking and creativity.

The Technology Fear Factor in Education

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 15:15 -- admin

This creative video asserts that American education continues to be afraid of technology and ignore its importance to our future as a nation and the future of our children. Further, it advises that we must move ahead and use technology to teach and to keep our kids safe, as wisely-used technology can be a friend of education, whereas ignorance is the true enemy.

Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media?

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 15:01 -- admin

The MacArthur Foundation (USA) launched a $50 million initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The foundation asserts that the answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations.

More information on [[http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org| The MacArthur Foundation website]].

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

“Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” So begins Mark Prensky’s article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, in which he discusses the divide between the current generation of parents, teachers and school administrators – who grew up in the age before the internet – and today’s students, who have been raised in an era of digital communication and technology.

Catching the Knowledge Wave: The Knowledge Society and the Future of Education

Thu, 02/07/2008 - 14:08 -- admin

Jane Gilbert says that knowledge is now a verb, not a noun – something we do rather than something we have – and explores the ways our schools need to change to prepare people to participate in the knowledge-based societies of the future.
Read our staff review of Catching the Knowledge Wave?, below.

About the author
Jane Gilbert is a chief researcher with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. She has a background in teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels.

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Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation

Thu, 01/31/2008 - 19:00 -- admin

In Growing Up Digital, bestselling author Don Tapscott profiles this net generation and how its use of digital technology reshaping the way society and individuals interact. Unlike the Baby Boomers who grew up with the passive medium of television, children today, in ever-growing numbers, are embracing interactive media such as the Internet, CD-ROM, and video games.

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