{"id":896,"date":"2009-03-30T02:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2013-08-03T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T06:06:00","slug":"when-students-power-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/when-students-power-down\/","title":{"rendered":"When Students Power Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Education Week<\/a><\/em> published a story<\/a> that revealed that students are typically asked to "power down" at school, leaving their 21st century literacy skills behind. It’s an ironic reality for the state of out-of-school literacies—learned "out of school" and condemed to be used only "out of school." <\/p>\n

This finding was part of a report released during a Congressional Briefing<\/a> of the Speak Up National Research Project<\/a>. The report gives voice to 1.3 million students, all K–12 pupils who speak to educational issues involving  technology, science and 21st century skills.<\/p>\n

While I’ve only begun thinking through the implications of the data, one thing is very obvious: students do not have the support or access to the tools that they need to prepare them for their future—and students realize that they are at a disadvantage as a result.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the findings, check out the Powerpoint presentation from the briefing, which highlights the key points of their report:<\/p>\n

Release of Speak Up 2008 National Findings<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n
View more presentations<\/a> from Laurie Smith<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Education Week published a story that revealed that students are typically asked to "power down" at school, leaving their 21st century literacy skills behind. It’s an ironic reality for the state of out-of-school literacies—learned "out of school" and condemed to be used only "out of school."  This finding was part of a report released […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-with-digital-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17216,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/17216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}