If you are at all interested in any of the elements of Web2.0 and how they interact with identity, this week’s Ideas is a great one to listen to. Things are certainly going to change over the next few years as the people we are teaching, the people who are making important choices have had much of their life openly documented by themselves and by others with focused messages being sent out by one of the many identities of these people.
So while we are struggling with using ppt properly and not know about social networking and dissing discussions and being frightened by eportfolios, the generation that we are trying to train is so far disconnected from “us” that it’s no wonder why contemporary ideas of education are having so many issues.
If the education powers that be don’t see that this is a tide that is coming, we are going to have even more issues than we have now. Granted, not every kid is as wired, but I doubt that the number is so small that it can be ignored.
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