Edutopia News 11th June 2008 – Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner

The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner: How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. Fascinating article by Mark Prensky essentially about learner voice. Challenges mainstream educators to listen.  http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008

‘We treat our students the way we treated women before suffrage — their opinions have no weight. But just as we now insist that women have an equal voice in politics, work, and other domains, we will, I predict, begin accepting and insisting that students have an equal voice in their own education. Or else our students will drop out (as they are doing), shoot at us (ditto), sue us, riot, or worse….’