Blogs and wikis

1. How many of you?

2. Check email daily?

3. Have a Facebook/Myspace
page?

4. Have your own blog?
Webpage?

5. Are aware of the recent
discovery of a previously
unknown group of
indigenous people?

6. Encountering Digital
Natives
A How-to Guide for the 21st Century:
On Speaking the Language of Blogs and Wikis

7. So What is a Digital Native?
 A digital native is a person who has grown up in a
world surrounded by digital technology.

8. Who are the Digital Natives?
 I am not a digital native…
 You are digital natives, or you should be at least.
 Your students will most certainly be natives to the
digital world, and in some cases they may speak
the digital language more fluently than you do.

9. William Henry Gates III
One of the founding fathers of the digital native
tribe, recently asked at the annual TED conference:
How do we make a teacher great?
Sadly, he doesn’t have a good
answer.

10. Here is my suggestion for
how to make better
teachers…
Though I readily admit that I am not Bill
Gates…
…just a fourth grade teacher…
with a vested interest.

11. First
As teachers we must begin a movement
for taking back our classrooms.

12. Second
We must must must find a way to
encourage creativity and the innate
curiosity that lives in us all.

13. …Finally
We must speak to the natives in their
language.
Cue potentially overdramatic
comparison.

14. Speaking the Language
Together
The official unveiling of your very own wiki…
meredithspeakingdigitally.pbwiki.com