jenny

1. **Are today's students different to those in previous decades? Are they attention deficit?** //I think students today want to achieve success in their endeavours, be confident, have a sense of self worth, establish a social network, 'make a difference' or contribution to the world/community, are curious, want to be able to solve their own problems and in these respects are really no different to those of previous decades regardless of teaching tools. What is different is students' exposure to social media and technologies from a much earlier age driven by multicorporations motivated by profit that have fostered the need for instant gratification and redirected curiosity to social dependence and acceptance.//

2.**What do they want from Education?** //To equip them to survive, engage and be successful in the world and for some that might mean social networking only. For others that might mean a job to provide enough money to purchase the latest toys, and for others further education and a career path.//

3. **How can we both motivate and engage current and future students?** //Publication of student creative work has been a source of motivation in my music 2 class - As soon as students format their compositions using a professional music notation software and put their name and copyright so that it looks like any professional published music, their pride and sense of achievement is obvious. Youtube is a fantastic resource which I constantly use to motivate my students - through having professional exemplars of styles of works, to performance techniques, critiques, compositional work.//

4. **How can we help students learn by adapting our attitudes to Information and Digital Technology?** //I like the concept of sharing performances and compositions on line, skyping other students and professional musicians/composers to get on line tutoring. There are more creative web 2 type software available now though our computer capacity and availability to wirefire needs/is to be upgraded.//