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Look up from anti-social network

A short video showing the effects and missed opportunities in life when you become addicted to your mobile phone.


Children are now now being taught in classrooms by using technology, it has replaced kinetic teaching and activities and shown children that they need technology, it can be useful as more information can be accessed however it can also make children lazier because they are not being active.
Young adults are early adopters of new technology, they will latch onto the latest trends and want to be able to access them from any location, more and more colleges and universities are adapting their methods and available technology because students are taking new technology into universities with them and not being able to use them because the facilities are not yet available.
The current and future students will continue to bring change to institutions as growing up surrounded by technology means that using it comes naturally to many and that we have self taught ourselves how to understand it.

How Safe is the Internet?
Do we really know what is happening online? No we don't, that doesnt mean we should not use it though, it means we should be protective of our data and information that we share over social media websites. There are many fun outlets available online that are not dangerous; for instance educational videos on YouTube, iTunes is a large collection of music and eBooks that are available to download, many of which are useful and educational. Computer gaming can also help to teach children as they do not feel as though they are being taught as it is within a game.


Digital Native:
grew up surrounded by technology
not afraid of it
can adapt to new technology without aid

Digital Immigrant:
grew up before technology was so integrated with society
have to be taught about technology
afraid of the new and changing society



kids have a passion for learning
let them teach themselves

Sugata Mitra

"granny cloud" is the term used for the project in which retired or ex teachers can connect online with students who do not have many facilities in their school and help them to learn. This can involve teaching students in another country learn and become active as the technology would be new to them and they would be interested.
https://grannycloud.wordpress.com/


"hole in the wall" experiments - 6-13year olds teaching themselves to use a computer without any interaction. Set up looking like a cash machine, a screen and a trackpad are all that are offered out of a wall in a remote village where nobody had used technology before, one child notices the new device and begins to experiment with it, it then gains more popularity as activities are being found that they can use on the computer.



Ken Robinson
He thinks that technology is key to unlocking the classroom. This could be true as more and more children are getting access to technology


Access:

Is technology a curse or a blessing ?
What? where? what do I do with it?
What happens if I am denied access?
How reliant am I on technology?

Communication skills
Some young children are struggling to learn to communicate with other people as they are using technology which will do it for them. They do not need to learn to communicate if they have a device which will do this instead, this means young children are becoming lazy not just in exercise and playing but in learning speech.