<\/a><\/p>\nThe difference today is that more than ever before, teenagers have to contend with ubiquitous chatter–information and misinformation–coming at them from all media. \u00a0Growing up in a time where computers are commonplace and the Internet has always been, does not make students digital natives. \u00a0They are not inherently able to decipher the many messages emitted from the techno tower of Babel. \u00a0But it is not only those born between 1977 and 1997 (Tapscott) that must contend with (and adapt to) these rapid-fire changes in technology and communication.<\/p>\n
We are all in this boat, together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a tendency in the west to isolate\/celebrate\/commemorate a symbolic sloughing off of a decade, an obsession, perhaps, to demonstrate some tangible progress.\u00a0 I am left feeling conflicted about the current trend in educational discourse that postulates the latest edu-speak and profits from the sales of the latest and newest gadgets encouraging us to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}