A wired world
This Pew Report tells us what we already know – our teenage students spend significant amounts of time on-line – creating content and communicating.
Then they arrive at schools that were designed for 19th-century needs – and are made to sit in tidy rows and listen to someone rave on about stuff that is irrelevant – no wonder they find it boring.
Come on educators – you need to be ahead of the e-game, not 20 steps behind.
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