Reading the article Brown, J. S., (2002). Growing Up Digital: How the Web Changes Work, Education, and the Ways People Learn. Change, Growing Up Digital, March/April 2000, pp 10-20. I was encouraged to read about the relevance of Blooms taxonomy and the use of the technology medium. It is true with the myriad of software, media, applications one has a distinct possibility of engaging students like they have never been engaged. I particularly was excited by the young 15 year old researchers at Xerox who have created a paradigm shift in thinking.
Multiprocessing by young digital natives does conjure up images of shallow surface learning. This article has made me re-evaluate this idea. The article talks about the notion that top executives have a short attention span and perhaps these natives will be more in tune with the work environment than previously thought.
Xerox’s example of sharing war stories as a community was indeed innovative. Lots of opportunity for this kind of growing community knowledge sharing for perhaps Year 12 students completing their HSC year. Importantly by building relevant and meaningful knowledge banks teachers are able to reflect and evaluate their teaching and learning strategies.
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