Dick Sblog

“Their Space: Education for a digital generation” draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.

This is a report worth reading. It made my pulse quicken at the recognition that kids’ use of a wide range of technologies is providing so much opportunity for learning. At the same time it made me want to weep at its reinforcement of the fact that so much of mainstream education doesn’t even realise what’s going on, let alone see ways of harnessing it. Let’s hope that this piece of work becomes yet another straw on the back of the camel of tight control…