Demos publishes "Their Space - Education for a digital generation"

Thanks to Josie Fraser for spotting and reviewing a new Demos report, by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon, Their Space - Education for a digital generation, available as for download as a 300 kB PDF. This ~80 page report, which has its main focus on school-aged learners, is worth reading closely. In particular, it calmly disposes of some of the myths that dominate current thinking about technology and education, for example:

1. The internet is too dangerous for children.
2. Junk culture is poisoning young people and taking over
   their lives.
3. There is an epidemic of internet plagiarism in schools.
4. We're seeing the rise of a generation of passive consumers.
5. All gaming is good.
6. All children are cyberkids.

And the report, whilst avoiding being prescriptive, hits several of the right nails on the head, for example that the Internet, and the freely available tools, ways of working and connecting, and the content that it provides, makes a pretty good (albeit incomplete) learning environment.