Filed under: Cloud Computing, Digital Era, Online Learning
As a teacher of 10 years I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to engage students in their learning and understand (but not be in) their culture. Last month I ran a series of blogs looking at teen culture, what their motivation points are and how we can engage them with online learning and technology in general. As a recap here are the posts which relate to this topic:
- Digital natives coming to a school near you
- Using SharePoint to engage teens without web 2.0
- SharePoint as on Online Learning tool for teens
- Student Collaboration in SharePoint forums
- Snow days 1 and 2-What did our students do?
In the second post above I outlined the increasing influence of online mediums over the entertainment of older generations. Music is clearly the number one driving force for teens followed closely by gaming. Just take a look at this preview video for a new gaming service launched this week called OnLive.
There is also an interesting article on the BBC today showing that in the 15-24 age range more people watch music (interesting phrase- watch music) on YouTube than television. It would appear that these two major influences have been enhanced and developed by the coming of the Internet and particularly broadband. Although the era of cloud computing is not yet fully here it can only be a matter of time before high speed Internet completely changes the way we use devices in the home and elsewhere. Returning to the idea of my nephew who I blogged about earlier in the week, I genuinely believe that the use of cloud computing and wifi will dominate the lives of young people both in school and at home within the next decade.