Happy New Year! I love this time of year as it offers us an opportunity to reflect on the past and resolve to make changes for a better future. This shouldn't really come as much of a surprise, but the next generation of students that are entering our classrooms will have access to more information than any other generation in history. My godson, pictured at left, is only 17 months old and is mesmerized by the warm glow of his parent's phone. He knows how to swipe through the various apps and open the ones he likes. He also knows how to take a selfie. So how will we as
educators meet his needs when he is of school age in just 3 more years? Will we continue to teach as we have always done with the same materials and pedagogical strategies? Or will we accept the fact that access to information is virtually ubiquitous and our role as educators will have to shift to help him and his cohort of students understand how to process all of the information they will have at their fingertips? The infographic below does a nice job articulating some of the generational changes that have taken shape over the years--food for thought as we ponder how teaching and learning will change in Digital Age...
