http://www.goldenswamp.com/2005/12/13/duh-use-the-kids-technology-for-education/ How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.goldenswamp.com/2005/12/13/duh-use-the-kids-technology-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Judy Breck Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:40:27 +0000 http://goldenswamp.com/?p=541#comment-371 Yes, "digital natives and immigrants." That is a really troublesome digital divide these days. Yes, “digital natives and immigrants.” That is a really troublesome digital divide these days.

]]> http://www.goldenswamp.com/2005/12/13/duh-use-the-kids-technology-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-370 david deschryver Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:40:35 +0000 http://goldenswamp.com/?p=541#comment-370 This disconnect is the distinction between digital natives and immigrants. There are other ways to put this, but this seems to capture it. And we see the trouble emerging in the classroom and in the admin departments in our schools. A great example was how a district in Kutztown PA tried to sue thier own student for computer tresspass when the students used the district provided computers in ways that seem obvious to anyone who owns a laptop but that violated a bad policy (one example is the downloading of IM). I wrote about this in an article called Suing the Digital Natives. This disconnect is the distinction between digital natives and immigrants. There are other ways to put this, but this seems to capture it. And we see the trouble emerging in the classroom and in the admin departments in our schools. A great example was how a district in Kutztown PA tried to sue thier own student for computer tresspass when the students used the district provided computers in ways that seem obvious to anyone who owns a laptop but that violated a bad policy (one example is the downloading of IM). I wrote about this in an article called Suing the Digital Natives.

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