Teaching the iStudent Quotes

“Educators often ask me, which one of these platforms is better? The answer is invariably: The one that you and your students are most comfortable using, as long as it completes the desired task.”
― Mark Barnes, Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom

“As long as you give them time to use technology for fun, students rarely abuse it.”
― Mark Barnes, Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom

“One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.”
― Mark Barnes, Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom

“If Facebook, Twitter and the like are blocked from student access, the foray into this astonishing universe of digital collaboration cannot begin.”
― Mark Barnes, Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom

“Searching for content requires wise information literacy strategies and tools (embedded in the curriculum learning processes) to avoid being lost in the information labyrinth. Content curation is also about organizing, filtering and ‘making sense of’ information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that has been selected for a specific purpose or need. (p. 1) As suggested in”
― Mark Barnes, Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom