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Category Archives: Net Generation


Growing up with Google

April 30, 2008 – 7:48 pm

An article by Diana Oblinger subtitled what it means to education defines the Net Generation as students who were born after 1982 (that makes them 25+) - students who have never known life without the internet, and have integrated internet access into everything they do.
My elder daughter and her husband moved to Abu Dhabi with […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, online technologies, Net Gen, web 2.0 | Comments (4)

Online Social Networking and Education

September 11, 2007 – 11:23 am

“Creating and Connecting”, a National Schools Board (US) paper published in July 2007 makes very interesting reading. It creates a picture of online social networking deeply embedded in lifestyles of 9-17 year olds, parents who think it may be a good thing, and schools that are not convinced it can ever have educational significance, although […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, networking, Net Gen, social networking, future schooling | Comments (0)

Learning from others

July 5, 2007 – 10:04 am

As always when I conduct workshops not only am I the presenter, I am also a learner.
At the QSITE workshop yesterday participants passed on some really good links. Here are some of them:
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace
Approaching technology from the perspective of children, it tells positive stories about how they use online space to build relationships and create original […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, lifelong learning, wiki, Net Gen, Generation Y | Comments (0)