{"id":7799,"date":"2010-08-06T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T14:55:47","slug":"special-report-empowering-the-igeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/06\/special-report-empowering-the-igeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: Empowering the iGeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/2010\/08\/05\/esn-special-report-empowering-the-igeneration\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>eSchoolNews Special Report: Empowering the  iGeneration<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from eSchoolNews.com by Ellie Ashford<br \/>\nTechnology can help channel students&#8217;  drive to make a difference; here&#8217;s how.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thanks to the democratizing power of technology, which lets anyone  with an internet connection tap into resources from all over the globe,  it\u2019s now easier than ever for students to start their own companies or  collaborate with peers to solve the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In fact, technology is empowering students in ways that earlier  generations could only dream of. This trend has important implications  for schools, which are under enormous pressure to engage students in  ways that are relevant to the challenges of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fortunately, a number of platforms exist to help educators harness  students\u2019 entrepreneurial spirit and their desire to make a difference  in their world, and channel these in ways that advance the curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eSchoolNews Special Report: Empowering the iGeneration &#8212; from eSchoolNews.com by Ellie Ashford Technology can help channel students&#8217; drive to make a difference; here&#8217;s how. Thanks to the democratizing power of technology, which lets anyone with an internet connection tap into resources from all over the globe, it\u2019s now easier than ever for students to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,178,66],"tags":[56,660,603,34],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-generational-differences","category-student-related","tag-educational-technology","tag-generational-differences","tag-student-related","tag-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}