This document discusses how teaching and learning have changed in the digital world. It notes that students are now immersed in media from a young age and are content creators online, posting videos, remixes, and more. While schools are making progress adapting to these changes, it questions whether education is fully engaging digital native students. The document advocates helping teachers adapt to better meet the needs of today's students.
156. ‚We are currently preparing
students for jobs that don’t yet
exist, using technologies that
haven’t been invented, in order
to solve problems we don’t
even know are problems yet.‛
Karl Fisch
Karl Fisch, Did You Know…
184. Average Weekly Time Spent On
Computer Activities
Source: Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, November 2004
185. Online Chores
• 14% - Helped mom and dad with
their tax returns online
• 38% - Sharing pictures and e-mails
with relatives
• 38% - Looking up movie listings
Starz For Kidz, Surfin' on Mom's Turf: Cyber Chillin' With 8-14 Year-Olds – Report released April 12, 2007
201. IM Speak Vs Latin
• People still insist upon using them –
almost like some sort of scholarly
achievement
• Words from the old have carried over
to the new
205. ‚These teens were born into a digital
world where they expect to be able to
create, consume, remix, and share
material with each other.‛
Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie - Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project
218. What do they create?
Guitar Canon Hey Clip
Total Views: 20.9 Million Total Views: 14.7 Million
219. What do they create?
Fast Food Freestyle Toto Africa Machinima
Total Views: 6.6 Million Total Views: 114,000
220. What else do they create?
• Blog or personal web pages
• Web pages for school, a friend, or an
organization
• Share original artwork, photos, stories, or
videos online
• Remix content found online into a new
creation
Pew Internet and American Life Project - November 2, 2005
277. ‚Computers will no longer be a
place to hide from girls or zits
or lack of social skills, as [they
were] for many of us.‛
David Liddle, 1993
Elon University/Pew Internet Project – Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast
292. 12.8 Million
Number of web sites added
so far in 2007
Source: Netcraft (http://news.netcraft.com/), May 2007
293. 177 Million
Total Internet users in US
Source: comScore qSearch – Press release dated April 26, 2007.
294. 19 Million
Number of American Internet users
under the age of 15
(May 2006)
171,421,000 - 152,046,000 = 19,375,000
Source: comScore qSearch – Press releases dated May 4 and 18, 2006
303. A thing in my pocket in 2020
By Atif Sattar
Cell phones will function as:
• Calendars
• Morning Alarms
• Music Player
• Projection Abilities
• Navigational Systems
• Authentication Device
• Voice Activated
307. U.S. Cell Phone Access
• 40% in many junior high schools
• 75% in many high schools
• 90% in colleges
Marc Prensky (2005) - What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? Almost Anything!
309. By 2009, more than
80% of students will
use mobile technology
as a tool for learning.
Gartner Europe, June 2004 - eLearning in Higher Education: A Quiet Revolution
312. Cellflix Film Festival
• Participants are to
create a 30-second
film using the
camera on a cell
phone.
First Place Winner, 2006
• First place - $5,000 ‚Cheat‛ – By Mike Potter
330. About Student Blogging
‚As for blogging, I’ve absolutely loved
the results. Kids who would usually
be petrified to have someone else
read their work are sharing it with
the world and loving every minute of
it.‛
Matt Horne
331. About Student Blogging
‚If you asked me if I thought it was
worth it, without hesitating, I’d say,
‘Yes! The results are well worth the
time investment.’ ‛
Matt Horne
364. ‚We’ve got to play where
they play – Even if we
don’t feel comfortable.‛
Kevin Honeycutt
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast - Episode 148 - Image Source: http://kevinhoneycutt.org/
391. Pay Attention – What It Is
• Motivational Video
• Designed to encourage teachers to
better integrate technology into
their teaching
• Describes various ways a teacher
can teach using technology
392. ‚This is a great video. As a tenth
grader, almost everything in the video
applies to me – I have a phone
(which really doubles as a GPS), I
have an MP3 player, I have a
computer. The lack of application of
technology in many schools is
appaling.‛
michaelper22
Comment made on YouTube, June 3.
393. Pay Attention – What It Isn’t
• Cure-all for all of the educational
problems that plague us today
• Doesn’t describe the only way to
effectively teach
394.
395. “… if we teach today as we taught
yesterday, we rob our children of
tomorrow … ”
– John Dewey