Learning technology by Andy Kirk: Techagogy : They call this the information age or something, right?
They call this the information age or something, right?
More voices from the 'net generation',
“They call this the information age or something, right? Look, I want things fast! I don’t wait for video, I don’t wait for mail, I don’t wait for anything.”
That quote from a student in the UK, from a new publication by Becta which goes some way to explaining how students learn and process information from a wide range of sources
Emerging technologies for learning: vol 3 (2008) aims to provide some focus on the short term implications and impact of technology in education.
Very readable, but here's a summary of each article.
One message I got was the reiteration that technologies are only ever as good as the educators who are making use of them... there is no Google generation as such, only an evolutionary growth of technologies and means of accessing information.
