Single-media schools, multimedia world

As Dr. Scott McLeod at Iowa State University blogged about the below, it got me more motivated to make sure that hybrid learning is a part of my childrens lives. The below chart tells the picture of how we can engage learners. I would suggest that the computer (or variations of it such as streaming video to your phone/pda) will overtake TV.
- Dave

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If a picture tells a thousand words, then the two images below from a recent report by the Global Information Industry Center at the University of California, San Diego are of interest. The first image shows the average American’s hourly information consumption per day. Note that the small yellow wedge represents printed text, which of course is the overwhelmingly dominant information medium in P-12 schools.

The second image shows the decreasing prevalence of printed text in our lives since 1960:

These data represent average Americans. I’m sure they would look different if we just looked at our younger generations.

It’s simple, really:

How long are American schools going to get away with these kinds of expansive disconnects between how we consume information in schools and in our daily lives?

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