Derek E. Baird, M.Ed.

Trend Watch: Those Digital Natives? Not So Savvy.

via www.economist.com "THEY are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. But whatever you call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000—there is a widespr...

Weekly Wrap: Ning Goes Bust, Seacrest Speaks, Breakfast Club Turns 25, The 'Digital Natives' Myth, Growing Up Gaga, Poking is Not A Media Plan & More!

Axe Falls on Ning: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. Related: Posterous commits to build...

Afternoon News with Richard Brown Show Notes: Facebook & Social Media in Schools

Today I had the opportunity to be a guest on Saskatchewan Canada-based The Afternoon News with Richard Brown on NewsTalk 980 (CJME). The topic was on 'Using Facebook in the Classroom." First, the segment went by pretty quickly! Secondly...

Learning 3.0: Mobile, Mobile, Mobile

"The fates guide those who go willingly; those who do not, they drag" ~ Seneca Learning 3.0 will be about harnessing the ubiquity of the mobile phone/handheld device and using it as an educational tool. Given the fact that many in the e...

Block social media at the office? Gen Y won’t work for you [VIDEO]

via www.ragan.com None of the top 100 companies to work for block social media access at the office, reports Erin Lieberman Moran, senior VP at the Great Place to Work Institute. Learn more about why employees should be...

The Kids Are Alright: TRUSTe Survey on Social Networking, Teens & Privacy

TRUSTe, provider of the leading privacy trustmark, has announced the results of a survey of parents and their teenagers on social networking behaviors – the first national social networking privacy survey to be conducted on both pare...

Why first–year college students select certain online research resources as their favorite

This paper, written by James P. Purdy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English/writing studies and director of the University Writing Center at Duquesne University, reports results of a preliminary study on why first–year college stu...

Trend Watch: Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry

Quick. Tell me the age of the average game player. 12? 15? 17? Nope. According to a new report from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the average game player age is 37. Even more surprising is the finding that in 2011, 29%...

Trend Watch: Is Teen TXTNG Killing Language? [VIDEO]

Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it’s all good news. In this TED talk, linguist John McWhorter thinks about...