" If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" (John Dewey, Educational Philosopher) Welcome to the ISC "In the Know" blog. This will be an ongoing blog that supports the learning outcomes of our school.The ISC staff hope that it will become a useful source of information about a range of topics that are related to information,resourcing,new technologies and pedagogies.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Happy 10th Birthday Facebook
On the 4th February,2004,Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dorm room exclusively for college students. I read with interest last week in Saturday's Age that ten years on,it now has 1.23 billlion active users,80% residing outside of North America.The biggest audience is now from people over 65 which is worrisome for Facebook.Once parents and grandparents pick up on a trend there is no longer any "cool " factor for the young and beautiful to be associated with that product.16-18 year olds are therefore leaving Facebook in droves and looking eleswhere for their social media of choice. For your further interest and to see what young people are turning to read Cybersmart's Facebook "Dead and Buried with Teens
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