From: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp

Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media

 From: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner offer vision for teaching and learning to both guide and beckon our profession as education leaders. They will both shape the library program and serve as a tool for library media specialists to use to shape the learning of students in the school. 

The world of CALL is changing rapidly, but there are three major trends that can be perceived as significant to language teaching and learning and likely to remain so over the next several years. This paper will discuss these trends--convergence, searchability, and collaboration--and offer examples of interesting websites that illustrate them.

What today's learners demand.