Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Don't think we need to change education?

Here is yet more evidence that the learners who enter our classrooms are not the same learners as we were when we were in school (I am 46-- even if you are in your 20's this applies!)

Common Sense Media, an advocacy group focusing on children's relationship with media, has released a study looking at the media use of young children... even pre-school children. The middle school educators may find little of interest, reasoning that t will be 10 years or more before the children who are that age enter middle schools, however, the media experiences of those children now will permanently affect their relationship with information. What they experience now will determine what they expect and how they experience school and work and life.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/zero-eight-childrens-media-use-america

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