eSchool News online – Study: ‘Power Users’ drive pedagogy
“…A new survey of teachers and instructors at the high school and post-secondary levels has found that students who excel in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) are driving change in classroom instruction…”
File under “no shit, sherlock”.
So we now start to see the laggy mainstream acceptance that the ‘new generation’ of learners are self-directed, expect connectivity, lead their own research, hyperlink and generally “leverage the internet to the highest degree conceivable”…
Importantly these skills are more of a mindset -
“…This group [is] in tune with what is needed for success in the 21st century, exhibiting many of the collaborative learning, analytical thinking, and problem-solving interests that are sought by today’s employers….”
Blimey, and all these big companies are spending money on handholding, led, ‘instructionally designed’ e-learning and education ‘content’, when the workers really need chunks of hyperlinked information, tools to produce knowledge and collaborate and arm themselves with information retrieval systems…
Seems a bit of a disconnect to me.
(Via Smartmobs.)