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EdTech is killing us all: facing up to the environmental consequences of digital education

EdTech is killing us all: facing up to the environmental consequences of digital education | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Digital technology is now a major part of education. Even the smallest schools are stuffed full of digital devices, display screens and projectors. Anything ..."

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Revisiting the digital native hypothesis | Tech Learning

Revisiting the digital native hypothesis | Tech Learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"It is conventional wisdom in many quarters -- indeed, for some people it approaches the level of 'incontrovertible fact' -- that young people are 'digital natives', possessed of some sort of innate ability to understand and utilize digital devices and applications merely because of their youth, because they have 'grown up surrounded by technology', in ways that older folks can't -- and perhaps never will ...."

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Oskar Almazan's curator insight, November 29, 2016 11:02 PM
Even where you buy into the digital native hypothesis, it still might be true that today's digital natives will in many important ways be tomorrow's digital immigrants. The rate of technological change could well mean that the approaches to the use of technology that the 'digital natives' of today develop in their formative years -- again, if you believe that such people exist -- may well be different, in ways both trivial and profound, from the approaches and perspectives that subsequent generations may adopt.
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Annotation with digital devices motivates learners to dive deeper 

Annotation with digital devices motivates learners to dive deeper  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Getting students to care about seeking and spreading the truth is one of the key topics in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions ...

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