Meeting the Real Needs of Our Digital Native Learners - audio to follow...(watch this space)

1. Meeting the Real Needs of Our Digital Native Learners [email_address] TESOL France 27 th Annual Colloquium, 7-8 November 2008 http://www.slideshare.net/bcgstanley

3. A 'digital native' is someone who grows up using technology as an everday part of their lives

4. http://www.marcprensky.com

5. Did you know the average person graduating from university today only spends 5000 hours of their lives reading paper-based books? photo by the department http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment/137413905/

7. Research now shows that technology can and does improve the academic performance of students in almost all educational subjects

8. In British Council research, 69% of learners from around the world said that they learned most effectively when working in groups or when socialising informally.

9. 73% of learners of English say they want to learn using a computer; 69% say socialising is a main motivation in their learning and that they want to have fun; 92% think that it's important to develop their problem-solving skills

10. English has been repositioned as a 'basic skill', to be learned by primary school children alongside other 21 st century skills in information technology – English Next

11. Did you know there are around 2 billion teachers and learners of English in the world? Web 2.0

13. Do you use any social networks like FaceBook, MySpace or YouTube? What about your learners? photo: Scott Beale / laughingsquid.com.

14. In British Council research, 69% of learners from around the world said that they learned most effectively when working in groups or when socialising informally.

15. photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwinton/1601928610/

16. photo by Jill http://www.flickr.com/photos/lij/122525716/ Content Creation

17. photo by Stabilo Boss: http://flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/ spoilt for choice

18. How do you use your mobile?

28. free online games

36. Video games have the potential to change the landscape of education as we know it...towards a new model of learning through meaningful activity in virtual worlds as preparation for meaningful activity in our post-industrial, technology-rich, real world. (James Gee)‏

38. It is forecast that “80% of active internet users will have a Second Life in the virtual world by the end of 2011” (Gartner)‏

40. - Gee, JP (2001) What Video Games Have to Tell Us About Learning and Literacy . New York: Palgrave. - Gee, JP (2005) ' Why are Video Games Good for Learning? ' http://www.academiccolab.org/resources/documents/MacArthur.pdf - Jenkins, H (2003) ' Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked ' http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html - Prensky, M (2001) ' Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants' http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp - de Freitas, S (2006) 'Learning in Immersive worlds - A review of game-based learning' http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning_innovation/ - NMC 2007 Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf - E-Learning Guild 360º Report (2007) 'Immersive Learning Simulations' http://www.elearningguild.com