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“Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths – A Study on the Connection Between K–12 Technology Use and 21st Century Skills” — a report just released by Walden University — offers up some interesting statistics based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. educators. First, it provides a summary of the five myths the . . . → Read More: New Research Report on Educators, Technology, and 21st Century Skills  Over the last few days, I’ve been watching the flurry of Twitter posts coming out of the New Literacies Institute conference that’s been taking place in Massachusetts this week. Quite frankly, I’ve had moments when the amount of information (and the number of browser windows open on my computer) has been pretty overwhelming, so . . . → Read More: New Literacies: What’s “new”, what’s “literacies”? During our Father’s Day barbecue yesterday, there were three generations sitting together on the patio. I sat back and took a moment to soak it in, and that’s when my “teacher eyes” saw it clearly. The two young 20-somethings were doing something the rest of us were not: while they talked and laughed, they were also texting under . . . → Read More: What is digital literacy? Image source: Francis Anderson In many articles I’ve been reading around education & technology, I’ve noticed that the term ‘digital native’ is becoming rather commonplace and its meaning is assumed to be understood. But, when we use that term to define our students, what exactly are we saying about them? Has it become generally . . . → Read More: Should we assume that ‘digital natives’ are ‘digital literates’? |
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