Education Nation Book - Chapter 6

This chapter was called the Youth Edge and it was talking about how technology has changed from generation-to-generation.  It explains how each generation uses the internet for different purposes, but that the younger generation knows technology better than the older generation.  As the author points out, kids know more about computers than we give them credit for.  We should be taking this into consideration when we begin to teach.  What better way to get the kids involved in their own learning than by placing them in their chosen environment of technology.  In kids's spare time, what do they do?  They jump on their computer, ipads, or their cell phones and visit YouTube, social networking sites, etc.  If they choose to spend their own free time with technology, it is an obvious sign to us future educators that we should incorporate computers into their learning style.  We can also build their self-esteems by asking them to show us, the adults, how to locate good teaching sites - since we all know that kids seem to know about websites that are unknown to adults, or know how to locate them.