"Despite the revolutions wrought by technology in medicine, engineering, communication, and many other fields the classrooms, textbooks, and lectures of today are little different than those of our parents. Yet today's students use computers, mobile telephones, and other portable technical devices regularly for almost every form of communication except learning."
-- National Science Foundation Task Force on Cyberlearning
Today begins the first blog post of "Becoming A Mobile Worker."
This blog will feature news articles, quotes, links, books and stories on the I-Generation and the way they communicate using cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, and hand-held wireless mobile devices that access the internet. More importantly, this blog will examine how mobile workers are taking advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile and Web 2.0 technologies.
This blog is an outgrowth of a workshop I've developed for the Franklin Hampshire Career Center in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where I am employed as a Youth Coordinator.
The accompanying photo is a youth protest in New Jersey inspired by Facebook.
An Information Resource Page About the iGeneration
Ken Johnston
A Career Counselor for Youth at the Franklin Hampshire Career Center, and a wireless mobile device enthusiast, who is trying to bring educational awareness to youth about careers and mobile learning.
Glossary of Terms
Mobile Worker - A mobile worker is someone who performs their work in multiple locations. A mobile worker uses mobile technology as a learning tool that happens when the learner is not at a fixed, pre-determined location. A mobile worker takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies.
iGeneration - a term used to describe children born from 1982-2000. It was first released in February 2005 as a lyric in a song titlted iGeneration by written by American rapper MC Lars, aka Andrew Robert Nielsen. This particular birth generation is also known as Millenials and are becoming distinguished by their fluency with computer technology and how they are redefining communication.
iGeneration - a term used to describe children born from 1982-2000. It was first released in February 2005 as a lyric in a song titlted iGeneration by written by American rapper MC Lars, aka Andrew Robert Nielsen. This particular birth generation is also known as Millenials and are becoming distinguished by their fluency with computer technology and how they are redefining communication.
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