ERIC Number: EJ936251
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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The People Unite: Learning Meaningful Civics Online
Pitts, Annette Boyd; Dziuban, Charles; Cornett, Jeffrey W.
Social Education, v75 n3 p160-163 May-Jun 2011
Throughout the world, today's students are being characterized as digital natives, the "net generation." This twenty-first-century student cohort is adept at multi-tasking and at using a variety of tools and resources including electronic search engines, blogs, wikis, visual images, videos, gaming platforms, and social networking. Current estimates suggest that teenagers spend an average of 30 hours a week online or in networking activities. They co-create knowledge, learn through active participation, exhibit a growing distaste for traditional transmission of information educational systems, and are anxious to communicate with their global peers. (Contains 7 notes.)
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Population Groups, Group Unity, Influence of Technology, Internet, Citizenship Education, Civics, Global Approach, Web Sites, Goal Orientation, Group Membership, Citizen Participation, Technology Uses in Education, Public Policy, Problem Solving, Video Technology, Electronic Publishing, Online Searching
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