Three things that stood out, for me, are as follows:
- In the face of available technological distractions, some students are not doing as well as they could in traditional subjects, but they are achieving highly in digitally creative areas. These creative areas are, arguably, where the jobs of the future are. Students value work that they feel is applicable to their futures.
- New social groups are emerging in schools, defined by what aspects of available technology the students choose to use most. The categories of jock, drama kid, and intellectual student are being replaced by "gamer," "texter," "Facebook addict," and "YouTube poster."
- "Down time is to the brain what sleep is to the body." In a multi-tasking, always-on age, we need to make time away from stimulation in order to allow our brains time to process and remember.
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The digitally creative area where most of the jobs are right now is in the programming end. This area is creative but tough. And it comes with a "geek" tag that is unfortunate. Enrolement in post secondary programming courses is dropping. The jobs of the future are there but high school students take courses according to other criteria that does not value this.
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