It has a publication date of March 31 but it showed up in the EdNA RSS feed on Wednesday. This report surveys major topics in learning for youth - the 'digital native', games, mobile learning, blogs. Some good content pointing clearly to the defects of traditional classroom instruction. That said, I found the selection of resources odd, and not simply because the report did not cite a single thing I've written on these topics. I can understand citing Prensky on the new learner, for example, but how does a summary of Oblinger's treatment make the cut? Robin Good is a good source for info on RSS, but his review of DU Reader isn't the article to cite. And is a short article by Will Richardson on blogs really what you want to depend on? I'd say nothing about selection but the author made a point of saying "only those (reports)CRLFwith direct relevance were recorded on the database." (p.4) The result is a report that touches on the important topics but is overall a spotty treatment - referring, for example, to Tripod and Geocities as exemplars of DIY (page 15) is an example of this. PDF.CRLF
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