Volume I, Issue 22 (January 19, 2007)

Kids Today
A recent interview with researcher Peter Grunwald offers some ideas about the learners in our classrooms:
  • Kids are taking control of the media they use, whereas the model in previous generations was passive consumption.
  • There hasn't been much discussion yet of the educational benefits of social networking.
  • Technology needs to be seamlessly integrated into the classroom rather than making it something that students have to get up and walk to. Technology as a discrete activity, separate from everyday learning, is going to become less important.

You can read the entire interview online.

Randy Ziegenfuss <rziegenfuss@stsd.org>
Chris Smith <csmith@stsd.org>