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One thousand: That’s approximately the number of instructional hours required of U.S. middle school and high school students each year. Four thousand: That’s approximately the number of hours of digital media content U.S. youths aged 8 to 18 absorb each year. (If you doubt that’s possible, be sure you’re taking... 
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This is the fourth of what will be eight posts that looks at myths about digital learning. The first three are: Myth #1: Students and teachers can find everything they want online Myth #2: Digital learning in non-linear Myth #3: The digital classroom is a playground Myth # 4 looks at"Digital learning in interactive." She begins this post with the statements 'Learning has become more and more interactive with an increased dose of engagement, no wonder we are teaching with the thing students love the most: technology.' (A quote that comes from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.) She states that this is a myth, comparing it to the concept of a digital native and suggests that "interactive (is) probably the most over-used work in learning today." To directly link to the post: http://eskymaclj.blogspot.fr/2012/10/myth-4-digital-learning-is-interactive.html.
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"Students are currently enjoying the last gasps of summertime in most countries right now. They’re outside, engaging in social activities, and constantly on the move. So what would happen if these students were thrown into a slow-moving and old-fashioned classroom? The students would get distracted, disconnected, and feel lost.' This post explores the term "digital native" and has a short video that may get you "more excited about engaging active learners."
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Teenagers today have so much exposure to technology. Check out this infographic for a more detailed look at the tech-savvy world of these teens.
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"Right now is one of those peculiar moments in human development where generations can be divided into a before-and-after category with regard to a significant development in technology. Immediately, all people alive these days will fall into one of two categories: knowing only a life with the presence of the mobile technology, and those who can still remember the analog days of phone books and newspapers printed on actual paper...The study found that Digital Natives switch their attention between media platforms (i.e. TVs, magazines, tablets, smartphones or channels within platforms) 27 times per hour, about every other minute."
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Have you heard the terms digital native and digital immigrant, and placed yourself in one space or the other? Have you seen a generation divide in learning and teaching? The article ‘The Fallacy of Digital Natives’ explores these issues. One source quoted is the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University) “Those who were not ‘born digital’ can be just as connected , if not more so, than their younger counterparts.” Both articles are worth checking out.
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Kids are "digital natives." They grew up using computers, and therefore are more "tech savvy" than older people. Right? No! Well, the first part's right, but the second part is increasingly wrong.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post looks at how people of different generations approach computers. It raises the question "Why do people think students are computer geniuses?" and states "The most computer-savvy demographic is now probably aged 25–55." Is this because the early computers did not have apps and had to learn how to work with a machine and trouble shoot it (and were able to do this on many levels).In other words, you were able to get "under the hood." What is the impact of this? Read on to learn more and see if you agree with this issue.
Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
November 17, 2013 9:03 AM
More and more tech articles are appearing about the need for students to have more and more skills in learning code (the language of the computer). This article hits on some points about why this new language of coding needs to be taught to everyone at a young age ....This might be good idea, but what do you think?
Excerpt: (And This Will Be A Growing Problem
Why does this matter? How good is it if the only thing you can choose from is what someone else let's you have because you don't know how to get it for yourself?
Haven't we had enough of that....Most of us can't make clothes much less the fabric and would starve to death if a grocery wasn't on the corner? Making your own music too often means mixing someone else's on a computer or just tuning into music. Everything we allow to be delivered to us is more apt to manipulate us then we are to manipulate it. We are then totally dependent on someone other then ourselves to provide answers for our problems and accommodate our desires and that's what makes learning this code language all the more important. 
Abi Mawhirt's curator insight,
November 17, 2013 9:36 AM
Issues with 'digital natives' adapting technology skills for learning, or for anything other than 'me time'. Will 'me time' on our devices change if none of us have research skills and rely on serendipity alone?
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Are students today digital natives? And if they are, what does that mean? "Unlike the teachers and parents who have watched technology slowly phased into modern culture over the past three decades, today’s students have beten immersed in the digital era since birth." But does this mean thaty they have mastered all things digital? Will they approach 'all things digital' with enthusiasm? "In our experience, if students are not able to find answers to an Internet search in the first few results pages, they say “I can’t find it,” instead of adjusting their search, or reexamining the results in depth." This post explores this issue and provides some interesting perspectives on how to approach tools that may be new to them. A worthwhile read if you work with students and have noticed that they may become frustrated with tools that do not "instantaneously" gratify them.
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Who are our digital natives? And what are their skills? Through a combination of video clips, text and links this post defines "digitals", and explores their impact on educators. Clearly technology is here, and it is impacting education and how teachers teach. Is technology being used effectively in schools? Are we making assumptions in terms of what it means to be a "digital native" or a digital immigrant"? This article explores these issues providing much food for thought.
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"Knowledge – or what is accepted as useful knowledge by a certain community – is maintained in educational institutions. We may perceive by this that this maintenance of knowledge is a powerful form of control, and in effect, a maintenance of reality." Yet, today the question is asked what is learning? Has it changed? Is the education system being remade? This post explores these questions any more with many resources as well as a video 'Education Evolution.'
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"The integration of technology into learning at this juncture in time should be a moot point. Yet schools continually block access to websites on the Internet and struggle to decide on a policy that would allow students to bring their own devices (BYOD) into the classroom. 'A New Literacy: Making Connections in Electronic Environments,' by Frank Romanelli, addresses the idea of embracing the literacy of a digital native by using sketches drawn as the narration progresses."
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Annie Paul Murphy writes an intriguing article that looks at what may be happening to students as more and more technology becomes a part of the school day. Check out these two facts.
"One thousand: That’s approximately the number of instructional hours required of U.S. middle school and high school students each year.
Four thousand: That’s approximately the number of hours of digital media content U.S. youths aged 8 to 18 absorb each year."
Murphy discusses work done by Patricia Greenfield, a developmental psychologist at UCLA. One of her points is that education at school is "formal education" while the time students spend out of school using digital media is "informal education." If this is accurate then would schools be better off having students "read copious amounts of information."
There is a discussion on how video games build spatial skills and inductive reasoning, and may help "their ability to divide their attention among many things happening at once on the screen" and much more.
This article may make your brain work as you wrap your mind around the information that is shared. If you are looking for an article to discuss with other teachers this might be one to choose.