Tuesday, July 24, 2007

class for non-digital natives

So, here I am in class in mid to late summer.
Learning the stuff we digital immigrants are needing for effective facilititation for todays students.
The concept of global research as necessary to basic"literacy" to serve as the verification of "fact" is somewaht boggling.
It was pointed out that it's not necessarily that the current students are more facile with today's access, it's just that they have never not known it. I witnessed that when my then 3 year old (now 16) was completely comfortable with a mouse.
It is also being pointed out that there is an incerasing difference in actual brain function in the youngsters, the tweens and we older folk; both in speed and actual location of the processing itself within the "tiny grey cells".

Dude.