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=Researchers ‘Discover’ Kids Don’t Like Homework=

=Why your students don’t do their homework=

//A study completed by the Education Alliance at Brown University identified six developmental needs students have. The study by Clarke and Frazer suggests that (1) students need to express their personal perspective, (2) they need to create individual and group identities, (3) they need to examine options and choose a path, (4) they need to take risks and assess effects, and (5) they need to demonstrate mastery. //

According to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study, 85 percent of high school students, **69 percent of middle school students**, and 31 percent of eight- to ten- year-olds now **own cell phones**

=[|**"Nearly universal literacy** is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; **nearly universal authorship** will shape tomorrow's."]=



= So how can we enable students to multi-task but in reality, apply how and what they already know to parallel their academics? =

//SCCS learning theory focuses on the formation of schemata in the process of learning, particularly// //social-connectedness and cognitive-connectedness schemata. Schemata are the existing structures of// //knowledge and understanding upon which new knowledge is built; as such, they are shaped by students'// //previous experiences and shape all future learning (Exhibit 2). The social-connectedness schema governs// //and is structured by the ability and desire to connect socially with others; the affordances of today's// //technologies have resulted in massive changes in this schema as students have more opportunities to// //connect in a wider variety of contexts. Students engage their social-connectedness schema in a set of// //behaviors that I describe as “link, lurk, and lunge”: Students link up with others who have the knowledge they// //need; they lurk, watching others who know how do to what they want to do; and they lunge, jumping in to try// //new things often without seeking guidance beforehand (Brown 2000). Students' social-connectedness// //schema underlies their ability to create and sustain physical, virtual, and hybrid social networks (Oblinger and// //Oblinger 2005).//