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Net Generation:
Today’s students learn in different ways and need to be stimulated in different ways to not only be interested, but to absorb the information being presented. Today’s generation of students have grown up with technology all around them and have absorbed information using these technologies. The result of this constant contact with technology has caused the younger generation to think and learn differently from the older generations.

**Instruction**:
Teachers need to acknowledge that the technology exists and that it could be beneficial in the classroom. It is our responsibility as educators to realize that if our students know, use, and learn with this technology, we should be implementing it into our classrooms. Today’s technology has provided them with instant access to information by clicking a few buttons and it is readily available to them. Educators need to bridge the gap between themselves, and what they know about the technology, and the students and their knowledge of technology. Teachers need to accept technology and learn how it can enhance their curriculum and improve student learning at the same time. This blending of both worlds will result in a more engaged learner. Connectivism emphasizes the fact that teachers need to instruct in a different way to allow the students to analyze the information in order to obtain knowledge about the subject. The theory also promotes learning from each other and to offer the students a collaborative learning environment. Technology can create connections to help the students communicate and learn. Students connect and gather information from so many different sources like: websites, blogs, podcasts, wikis and other Web 2.0 resources. The theory of Connectivism explains how students today learn in this technology enriched society.

**Connectivism Model**:
Learning happens as learners connect to nodes on network. Knowledge does not reside in one location, but arises out of many learners seeking inquiry, usually related to shared interests. Providing feedback to one another creates new learning. When a learner actively engages in connecting and reconnecting through nodes on networks, understanding and comprehension occurs as unimportant or outdated learning is discarded and new important learning replaces the old.

Technology:
Educational practice must keep pace with the connectedness, the nodes, that are happening on the Internet. The explosive development of technology and Web 2.0 tools, as well as advances in mobile devices, make new and different educational structures a necessity. The online blogs, wikis, sharing, and community networks that people build provides expertise and knowledge. The tools are not the focus of connectivism, however. The learning that occurs using those tools, creating nodes, making connections, re-tooling ideas is what connectivism theory proposes.

The Networked Student:
"//The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students.//" Retrieved April, 2012 at @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA media type="youtube" key="XwM4ieFOotA" height="315" width="420" align="center"