Digits
Transcript: Digits Just Who Are Our Students? The Net Generation born 1982 - 2003 2nd grade to graduate school Nearly 90 million 1/3 of U.S. population What Do We Call Them? Digital Aboriginals Digital Natives Dot.Com Generation Echo Boomers First Digitals Generation Y Millennials Net Generation Nexters Trophy Generation Media -- education's biggest competitor! They spend: 4 1/2 hours a day watching TV 2 1/2 hours a day listening to music 1 1/2 hours a day playing video games How do we tap this resource? 85% have home access to internet 2/3 have cell phones 1/3 have theirown laptop How many words have they never used? dial, tune, type, card catalogue, penmanship, spelling, history? How many words will baffle your parents or grandparents? internet, on line, server, laptop, interface, download, ipod, podcast, ipad, chip, You Tube, hardrive, software, BTW, LOL, G2G, OMG Your Net Gener Profile: 13-15 “With-it” 9-12 Maybe 0-8 No Way Did you know? The internet is the fourth information revolution in history Social media can now bring down governments. The three largest nations today? China, India, and Facebook. There are 7.5 new face book users per second. School kids never knew a world without wikipedia and Facebook. -- Eduardo Ochoa, US. Department of Education Assistant for Post-Secondary Education Digital Devices change the way students think and learn Digital learners are texting, listening to an Ipod, surfing the internet about Egypt while they are supposed to be writing a paper on The Scarlet Letter. Have you thought about this? Wikipedia creates a decentralized pedagogy where the teacher is a coach instead of a designer of the process. Horizontal replaces the vertical, heirarchical approach to learning. Individualized learning is making institutional learning obsolete. If learning is now a 24/7 lifelong experience --- How do schools maintain relevancy when the collection and dissemination of knowledge is no longer closed and controlled? -- Eduardo Ochoa, US. Department of Education Assistant for Post-Secondary Education How do They Learn? inductive discovery and trial and error multitask everything short attention span live on instant gratification respond quickly expect rapid feedback Communicate visually Crave social face-to-face interaction Emotionally open Embrace mullticulturalism and diversity Prefer teamwork and collaboration Prefer typing to handwriting Refer to it as multimedia presentations instead of powerpoint. Avoid the repetitious slide show by linking movies, web sites, etc. science teacher --rock dating game. bachelor #1 metamorphic #2 igneous #3 sedimentary bachelorette is a diamond asking them questions. math teacher --assign watching a ball game, record stats literature teacher -- watch tv show/movie. map plot development, character contrast composition teacher -- Are students writing? Yes they are, in different forms. music teacher -- kinesthetic learner can interpret with dance, students who like to write can do it with lyrics punishment for cell phone use in class? take ten pictures of right angles, send a text of lyrics of ??? class rules? have kids produce it on Photostory 3 or iphoto. Twenty-first century philosophical questions created by technology Does the good person need to use technological tools in a good society? Has the purpose of education changed? What should everyone learn in the 21st century? What is the modern nature of learning? Does multi tasking shorten attention spans and hamper learning? What now constitutes excellent teaching? How should schools bridge the digital divide? How do We Teach Them? Learn the way they think, how they behave, their interests, and their culture Establish a connection through engagement and gaining their trust Tap their multiple learning styles by leveraging their interest in media -- games, movies, music, social media, TV, You Tube How Tech Savy are They? 99% use the internet for homework 97& own a computer 94% own a cell phone 92% multitask while texting 89% use search engines 87% use news websites 75% have a facebook account 57% create media 53% own an MP3 player 49% download music