Our Students

by Marc Alter

1. Teachers/Experts

1.1. Creators of informational content

1.2. Hobbies

1.3. Interests

2. Consumers

2.1. Of products

2.2. Of information

2.3. Of news

2.4. Of opinion and editorial

2.5. Of ideas

3. Writers

3.1. Word processing

3.2. Publishing to the web

3.3. Texting

3.4. Twitter

3.5. Social networks

3.6. Instant messaging

4. Communicators

4.1. Audio

4.1.1. Podcasts

4.2. Video

4.2.1. As creators of video and as viewers

4.3. Photography

4.4. Writing

5. Collaborators/Networkers

5.1. Face-to-face interaction

5.2. Google Apps

5.3. Social media

5.4. YouTube

6. Publishers

6.1. Printed

6.2. Twitter

6.3. Blogs

6.4. Web

6.5. Texting

6.5.1. Cell phones

6.6. Wikis

6.7. YouTube

6.8. Instant messaging

7. Creators

7.1. Writing

7.1.1. Word processing

7.1.2. Texting

7.1.3. Blogging

7.2. Artwork

7.2.1. Image editing applications

7.3. Ideas

8. Problem Solvers

8.1. Discern Info

8.1.1. Synthesis

9. Socializers

9.1. School

9.1.1. Digital is integrated/blended

9.2. Community

9.3. Online

10. Learners

10.1. Search Engines

10.1.1. Access Info at any point

10.1.1.1. Acquisition of knowledge and info is nonlinear

10.1.2. Access Info from many places

10.2. Social networks

10.3. School

10.3.1. Discern info

11. Researchers

11.1. Google

11.1.1. Discern info

11.2. Books

12. Activists/Change Agents

12.1. Blogs

12.2. Social Media

12.3. Podcasts

13. Storytellers

13.1. Social Networks

13.2. Face-to-face interaction

14. Exlporers

14.1. Browsing the web

14.1.1. "Stumbling upon" new knowledge and information and pursuing it.

15. Readers

15.1. Books

15.2. Literature

15.3. News

15.4. Instructions

15.5. eText

15.6. Web content

16. Artists

17. Designers

17.1. websites

17.1.1. game design

18. New node

19. New node