I just read an interesting post on the Common Craft blog. Leelefever discussed how many assumptions those of us who live in an online world may be making about the knowledge of the general population. It reminds me of the discussion we were having about ‘Are they really digital natives?’ a few weeks ago.

The discussion is a wider one than that just what is affecting us in schools. Interestingly, I have even noticed aspects of it in special interest groups I am involved in.  There is a very active community of glass artists online, and I think we all frequently forget there are many other talented artists who have no online presence at all.  It seems the web is not yet ubiquitous in any aspect of our society.

It is a large enough presence, however, that we do our students a huge injustice if we don’t adequately prepare them to good global citizens online.