This was a question I was asked today at the photocopier. A great question though isn't it? I was at the EPICT Future Trends in Elearning Conference in September where we discussed just that. A keynote speaker, Thomas McCusker, Elearning Manager, Get Learning, Clydebank College, talked about education establishments, saying 'half of what students learn, will be outdated by the time they leave'. He talked about the Generation x, which he described as those born between 1982-2002, the digital natives I would say, he quoted some interesting statistics I think he said they were from http://www.didyouknow.cd/index.html, but it could be from http://www.didyouknow.com - which is under construction. The first link is a bit of fun though, and worth a view. Anyway here are the stats;
Generation x will-
Spend 10,000 hours playing video games
Send 200,000 emails
Watch 20,000 hours TV
Spend 10,000 hours on the Mobile phone
and Under 5,000 hours reading books - although they must do lots of other reading don't you think to manage all the other activities successfully?
http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2394579
Quite a nice read along the same lines and does make you think about the way education is going.
Talk soon
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