Deloitte recently published its Digital Education Survey, with insight into how the education ecosystem is extending beyond the classroom. No doubt about it, education technology is impacting the way students learn, but as a parent, I'm much more intrigued by what makes my teenage sons interested to learn when they're NOT in school.
One insight from the survey is that students want the chance to learn new things and they want to engage in ways that are fun (no surprise), but this is less about wanting to get better grades or preparing for assignments in school and more about the independent learning itself and the chance to engage with their peers. And yes, they goof off and play games and visit sites that don't meet your approval, but imagine environments that take this self-directed online learning to the public square. If parents are worried that kids spend too much time online at home, perhaps we should be focusing on learning labs that use technology to engage students in the communities around them.
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