Alan November on the Net Generation (Big Ideas Podcast)

Alan November talks about the Net Generation from TVO's Big Ideas. A great quote:

Don't ban Facebook. I was talking to a CIO of a province that banned Facebook.
I said, "Why did you do that." He said, "Well, because young people are wasting their time at work."
And I said, "Well, if young people are wasting their time at work, that's a management problem not a technology problem. That has to do with motivation, supervision, and workflow. "
And I said, "What was the effect of banning Facebook?"
"Well, everybody went to MySpace."
[...] It said to all the young people: we don't understand your technology, we don't get collaboration, and we don't trust you.

Replace "work" with "school."