Essential Question: How can we integrate tools into the classroom to improve student learning?
"...the
amount of information is doubling every 24 months and that by 2020 the
amount of information will double in every 72 days. What this means is
content memorization will simply not work anymore. It is currently
impossible; especially at the rate knowledge is changing, to master it
all. And even if you did, the content that you learn in your freshman
year of college would be outdated by the time you graduate. Literacy in
the 21st Century is not based on do you know it- rather, can you find
it, analyze it, adapt it, and synthesize it? John Tao says as we move
out of the information age into this new era of creativity an
individual’s value will not be based on what he knows, but what
he can create."
- Ken Kay
"What
makes this generation different from its predecessors is not just its
demographic muscle, but it is the first to grow up surrounded by
digital media. Computers and other digital technologies, such as
digital cameras, are common place to N-Gen members. They work with them
at home, in school, and they use them for entertainment. Increasingly
these technologies are connected to the Internet, an expanding web of
networks which is attracting a million new users monthly. Constantly
surrounded by technology, today's kids are accustomed to its strong
presence in their lives. Today's kids are so bathed in bits that they
are no more intimidated by digital technology than a VCR or a toaster."
- Don Tapscott from Growing Up Digital: The Rise of
the Generation Website
