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WEST VIRGINIA PRINCIPALS’ CONFERENCE
ENGAGE ME OR ENRAGE MEJuly 16, 2008Beaver, WV
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My biggest concern as an educator is…
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My Education Credentials
• Master of Arts in Teaching (Yale)
• Taught High School Math (5 yrs)
• Ran a Street Academy
• Taught Elementary School French
• Taught College Music
• Still Tutor Math
• Have interviewed close to 1000 kids
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Education Projects
• FL, L.A. Virtual Schools Courses• Chemistry Game (MeCHeM)
• Physics Game (Waste of Space)
• Periodic Table Cell Phone Game (EleMental)
• Financial Literacy Game (MoneyU)
• Make Your Own Game (Games a la Carte)• Youth Depression (Mood Management League)• Algebra I Game (The Algebots, in development)
• Reading Teacher Game (to come)
Education Projects
My Latest Book:
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How Computer and Video GamesAre Preparing Your Kids
for Twenty-first Century Success – and How You Can Help!
ENGAGE ME or ENRAGE ME Educating Today’s
Digital Native Learners
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What you should beworried about is
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You need to understand boththe speed and magnitude of the
that’s already here…
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…and the even bigger
that’s coming
Are You Having A Good Summer?
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Are Your Kids?
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How many of youhave sent an email
in the past 24 hours?
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“Email is forold people”
– A student
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– A headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education
In 30 years…
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…if technologycontinues to
double in powerevery year…
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Our technology will be1 BILLION TIMES
more powerful than today
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…and today we arealready working at the
ATOMIC level
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“Most of us prefer to walk backward into the
future…
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…a posture which may be uncomfortable…
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…but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar
things as long as we can.”
-- Charles Handy
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21st C
ENTURY
EDUCATOR
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CH
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TIME
Our Lives
We are here
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Discontinuity:Digital Technology
So it’s not just theFar Off Future
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Life is differentEvery Day!
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BankingPhoningTravellingReadingBuying/SellingObtaining Info
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You have probably changedthe way you do
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These daysNEW TOOLS COME FAST…
• Sped-up video• Picture Search• IM/texting• Blogs• Wikis• Wikipedia• Podcasting• Phone polling• My Space• Handhelds
• P2P• Complex Games• Web 2.0 • Web 3.0• Augmented Reality• Phone cameras• Phone videos• GPS• You Tube• MoSoSo
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Yahoo search Google search
Email IM
Film Cameras Digital cameras
TV You Tube
Hard drives Flash memory
…and tool switching is already close to instantaneous
CH
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TIME
Our Students’ Lives
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[our kids were] “born to the idea of rapid change”
-- Nicola Griffith in Slow River (1995)
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The change that is THREATENINGto our teachers…
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The change that is THREATENINGto our teachers…
…isEMPOWERINGto our students!
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It means the nature of
education is changing!
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Font of knowledge wasthe teacher
Pre - 21st Century
Font of knowledgeIs the Internet
21st Century+
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Our future waspredictable
Pre - 21st Century
Our future isuncertain
21st Century+
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Context was local, national
Pre - 21st Century
Our context isglobal
21st Century+
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We solved problemswith the tools we had
Pre - 21st Century
We invent new toolsto solve our problems
21st Century+
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Helping Students Invent New Tools?
How many of your teacherssee their job as
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Knowinglong division?
In 30 years, will today’skids be better off
Or knowing how to solve problems?
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Knowing how to write?
In 30 years, will today’skids be better off
Or knowing how to write code?
“We grow up interacting – through computers and
through our cell phones – and that’s how we learn.
– A graduate student
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Yet, we have beeneducating our kids with the
same generation of technology
AS THIS:
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18th Century Childbirth
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Medicine has moved into the 21st century;
WHY HASN’TEDUCATION?
“Why do we have to adapt to the past? Why shouldn’t we be taught to in different
ways!” – A College student
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What do you want/like?
• Group Work• Projects• Case Studies• Activities• Discussing• Interacting• Being asked about what we think• The interactive part• Teachers coming down to our level• Teachers interacting and using our language• The more the teacher gets the class involved in the discussion, the better it is.• To be actually thinking about stuff
Our kids arealreadyGLOBAL
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Community=
THE WORLD
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CH
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YEARS
Timeline
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5 10 15 20 25 30
Technology 1 billiontimes more powerful
Machines morepowerful than thehuman brain
Implanted / wearable Real-time environments
Handheld computers withPower of today’s super-c
Mobile phonewallets
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Whenwill all this
changeEND!??
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IT WON’T !!!
We have to GET USED TO
the Idea of Rapid Change!
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…even in our Schools!
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The world ourkids inhabit
is already hugelydifferent from our own
“You look at technology as a tool. We look at
technology as a foundation – it’s totally integrated into
what we do.” – a student
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It’s time to
TURN AROUND!!
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And
FACEthe future
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What does this mean for
TEACHERS?
EVERY SINGLE ONE OFYOUR TEACHERS
is going to have to
CHANGEhow he/she teaches…
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Giving up more and more
CONTROL
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TOSTUDENTS!
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Lecturingto and
controllingstudents
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Partneringwith
students
Do you know where eachOf your teachers is
along this continuum?
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Changing isSCARY
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We can make the list of reasons why we
CAN’T or SHOULDN’T
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The list of reasons why we
CAN’T or SHOULDN’T
It worked in the pastThe past is important
I’m too oldIt’s the kids
No Child Left AliveYou can’t make me
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We can
Feel the fear –And stick to what
we’re used to
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Or we can
Feel the fear –and stillchange
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“Feel the fear –and do itanyway!”
-- Elizabeth Moon in The Speed of Dark (2003)
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Is the definition of
COURAGE
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Do we and our teachershave the
COURAGEto change?
“I know it’s the way to go, I’m just not sure I
can.” – A teacher
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What if we don’t?
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Of course, our kids can always get the hi-touch non-
offshorable jobs…
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So let’s talk about…
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21st century kids…
Who AREthese people,
anyway!
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not
“little us’s”
anymore!
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Today’s younger learners are NOT the ones our
systems (and teachers)were designed and trained
to teach!
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• 5-10,000 hours Video Games• 250,000 emails and IMs• 10,000 hours on cell phones• 20,000 hours TV (incl. You tube)• 500,000 commercials
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Why?
• • < 5,000 hours book reading
• 2 billion ring tones per year
• 2 billion songs per month
• 6 billion text messages per day
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DIGITALTECHNOLOGY
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Is their
BIRTHRIGHT!
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Sky (b. 2005)
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“[Young people] are not just using technology differently today, but are approaching
their life and their daily activities differently because of
the technology.”
--Net Day “Speak-up Day” Summary
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The emerging
ONLINE LIFEof the
Digital Native
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The e-Life
Communicating IM, chat
Sharing Blogs, MySpace
Buying & Selling ebay, craigslist
Exchanging peer-to-peer
Learning Wikipedia, You Tube, search
Meeting Second Life
GamingOnline, MMORPGs, Cell Phones
Searching Info, connections, people
Analyzing SETI, drug molecules
Reporting Moblogs, photos
Programming Open systems, mods search
SocializingLearning social behavior, influence
Growing UpExploring, transgressing
Coordinating Projects, workgroups, MMORPGs
Evaluating Reputation systems–Epinions, Amazon, Slashdot
CollectingMp3s videos, sensor data
Creating
Sites, avatars, mods
EvolvingPeripheral, emergent behaviors
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The e-Life
Communicating IM, chat
Sharing Blogs, MySpace
Buying & Selling ebay, craigslist
Exchanging peer-to-peer
Learning Wikipedia, You Tube, search
Meeting Second Life
GamingOnline, MMORPGs, Cell Phones
Searching Info, connections, people
Analyzing SETI, drug molecules
Reporting Moblogs, photos
Programming Open systems, mods search
SocializingLearning social behavior, influence
Growing UpExploring, transgressing
Coordinating Projects, workgroups, MMORPGs
Evaluating Reputation systems–Epinions, Amazon, Slashdot
CollectingMp3s videos, sensor data
Creating
Sites, avatars, mods
EvolvingPeripheral, emergent behaviors
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“The single largest differentiator …
is the social network.”
-- Jack Mckenzie, SVP Frank N. Magid Associates
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“The single largest differentiator …
is the social network.”
-- Jack Mckenzie, SVP Frank N. Magid Associates
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Equity?
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Yes, some have moreaccess than others,
BUT THEY ARE ALLDIGITAL KIDS
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They are great atsharing,
teaching each other,and
getting what they need
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And we need to helpmake this happen!
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Instead of bemoaningthe “digital divide”,we can be a big part
of the Solution!
WHY are so many kids tuning out of
today’s school?
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We areWe are
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themthem
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ToTo
“Whenever I go to school I have to ‘power down’”
– a high school student
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“I’m engaged in only two of my seven classes.”
– a high school student
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“I’m bored all day,because the
teachers just talk and talk and talk…”
– a 5th grade girl
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WHYAre our kidsSO BOREDIn school?
1.We’re not teaching them the right stuff
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TRUE!
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Because we are too focused on the
past
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And not on theirFUTURE!
“My passion is my future.”
– a student
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5 10 15 20 25 30
Technology 1 billiontimes more powerful
Machines morepowerful than thehuman brain
Implanted / wearable Real-time environments
Handheld computers withPower of today’s super-c
Mobile phonewallets
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We have to integratethe future
into our curriculum!
Nanotechnology
Bioethics
Programming
Genomics
Proteomics
Biomimickry
Today’s Kids Need
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For Logical Thinking:
PROGRAMMINGIntegrated into all subjects
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Kids need tolearn HTML
Cyber English:
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Kids need tolearn SIMULATION
Cyber Math and Science
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Kids need toIntegrate GAMING
Cyber Social Studies
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Kids need toUse MULTIPLE LANGUAGE
TEXTING
Cyber World Languages
30 years from now, our students will
laugh (or cry)at the education wegave them in 2008
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The idea that we cangive kids a set of
meaningful informationthat will last
is over
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We need to teachskills
that will be usefulthroughout life
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We have to teachOur kids
Twenty-first CenturySkills!
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21st CenturySkills
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21st Century Skills
1. Knowing the right thing to do
• Behaving Ethically• Critical Thinking • Decision Making • Problem Solving
• Judgment
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21st Century Skills
2. Getting it done
• Goal Setting • Planning
• Self-Direction• Self-Evaluation
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21st Century Skills
3. Doing it with others
• Communicating/Interacting: With individuals & groups (especially using technol.)
• Communicating/Interacting: With Machines (= Programming)
• Communicating/Interacting: With a World Audience
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21st Century Skills
4. Doing it creatively
• Creative thinking• Designing
• Playing• Finding your voice
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21st Century Skills
5. Constantly doing it better
• Being proactive • Prudent risk-taking • Thinking long-term
• Continually improving through learning
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For us to know what makespeople effective, and NOT teach it
to our kidsIS CRIMINAL!
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How do I do all that in this era
of
Standards and Assessments
?????
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We have tofind a way!
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One good approach:
“CurriculumDeletion”
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Right now we are full
You can’t add something about the future unless you delete
something from the past
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Deletion Candidates?
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WHY ELSEare our kidsSO BOREDin school?
2. We’re not teaching them the right way
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ALSO TRUE!
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Metaphor
Kids used to growUp in the dark
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We werethe people
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Who Showed StudentsThe Light
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Today’s kidsToday’s kidsGrow up in the lightGrow up in the light
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SCHOOL
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We want to bethe people
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whoShow Students
the Light
The danger is that…
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With the very bestof intentions,
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We pull studentsout of the light
into darkness!
CAN WETURN ON
THE LIGHTS???
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For the first time,
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our schools
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Have someserious competition
The kind of learningwe want…
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…where students learn
in new ways…
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…where they’rehighly motivated
to learn, both on their own
and with their peers…
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…is alreadyhappening.
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Outside of school…
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…without us!
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“After School”(21st century learning)
Future LearningStuff they Know they Need
PULLED BY THEM= Exciting
Today’s Education isBifurcating Quickly
“School”(Credentials)
Legacy StuffStuff that is Irrelevant
PUSHED ON THEM= Boring
“We decided to bypass the schools.”
– Deborah Schwartz, MOMA
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“Avoid the schools!”
– Dr. James Rosser
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“The greatest opportunity for change is currently found in after-school programs and
informal learning communities.”
– MacArthur White Paper
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CAN SCHOOLCOMPETE?
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CAN WETURN ON
THE LIGHTS???
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Or is it onlyTHE DARK SIDE
keeping us alive?
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The DARK SIDE of school
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“After School,”the kids havealready found
a better way to learn
“A New Paradigm”For Learning
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OldParadigm
Kidsbeingtaught
NewParadigm
Kidsteaching
themselves(with guidance)
BOREDOM ENGAGEMENT
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“Question-led learning”“Problem-based learning”
“Case-based learning”“Student-centered learning”
“Progressive education”
It’s not REALLY New
Lecturingto and
controllingstudents
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Partneringwith
studentsas theylearn ontheir own
But it’s newFor a lot of our teachers
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We know this is the right way to go,because…
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1. The kids tell us
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2. The successful schools tell us
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3. The successful teachers tell us
What’s the role ofTECHNOLOGY?
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Some thinktechnology
is the answerto getting engagement
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But just because it’sTECHNOLOGY
Doesn’t make something
ENGAGING
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“A lot of teachers think they make a
PowerPoint and they’re so awesome!”
-- a (female) high school junior
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“…But it’s just like writing on the blackboard.”-- a (female) high school junior
Technology’sONLY role
IS TO SUPPORTTHE NEW PARADIGM
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TechnologyDOES NOT and CANNOT
supportthe way we
currently teach
IN FACT,Until teachers move from the old
“telling” paradigm to the new
“kids teaching themselves with our guidance”
paradigm…
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Technology actually HINDERS
engagementand learning
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Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse.
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around it but also posted step-by-step instructions on the Web for others to follow (which they did). …
May 4, 2007
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Let Studentsdo what they
do well• Use the technology
• Find content • Create
To teach today’s students successfully, we must SHARE
THE WORK
Let Teachersdo what they
do well• Evaluate the work
• Provide context• Find quality
So we are going to have to
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the way we teach our kids…
BEFOREtechnology
can help us
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In the old “telling” paradigm,technology gets in the way
But in the new paradigmtechnology sets the kids
(and us) free!
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• Sped-up video• Picture Search• IM/texting• Blogs• Wikis• Wikipedia• Podcasting• Phone polling• My Space• Handhelds
• P2P• Complex Games• Web 2.0 • Web 3.0• Augmented Reality• Phone cameras• Phone videos• GPS• You Tube• Games & Simulations
Yes, we need tobe using the latest tools
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But onlyIn the right wayi.e. in support of the
New Paradigm
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OldParadigm
Kidsbeingtaught
NewParadigm
Kidsteaching
themselves(with guidance)
BOREDOM ENGAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY
DOESN’T
HELPTECHNOLOGY
REQUIRED
Step 2:Let kids use the technology
to take off!
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Step 1: Change the Paradigm
of how we teach
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Does this meaneverything I have done
for the past x years
Is meaningless?
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No,But the old ways are useless
for going forward!
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“There’s so much separation between how students think and how
teachers think”-- a (female) high school junior
• One size fits all
• Doing & Gameplay
Digital Natives
learn from
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DigitalImmigrants
teach by
• One Thing at a Time
• Linear Stories
• Presenting & Telling
• Multi-tasking
• Lots of Choices
• Random Access & Exploring Options
• Delivering content • Being Engaged
• Face-to-face • Going Online
• Going relatively slowly • Going really quickly
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We can’t just stand up there any moreand tell!
The Five Stagesof
Teachersand
The New Paradigm
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1. Hiding
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2. Panic
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3. Acceptance
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4. Comfort
5. Power
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HOWshould teachersuse technology
in the new paradigm?
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ThePrensky
Apostacy
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It’s important that teachers
DON’T WASTE THEIR TIMELearning to Create With New Tools,
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because…
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The students can do that! (and they want to)
“Don’t try to keep up with the technology
-- you can’t”
– A 14 year old girl
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“You’ll only look stupid.”
– A 14 year old girl
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How our kids see teachersWhen they use technology
Solution
Phone-basedcameras
• Contains some incorrect information• Used as only source
Wikipedia
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IM
Problem
How We Generally Do Use New Tools
BAN IT
• Distraction in class• Used to get test answers
• Used inappropriately
BAN IT
BAN IT
• Search vs. Research• Fair Use vs. Plagiarism
Evaluate Teach
Designa WikipediaEntry for…
Wikipedia
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Assign
• Communication• Journalism• Use of MM• Creativity
How We Should Use New Tools
• Search vs. Research• Fair Use vs. Plagiarism
Evaluate Teach
Phone-basedcameras
• Pictures vs. Words• Appropriate vs. In- appropriate• Truth vs. Manipulation
Designa WikipediaEntry for…
Take and PhotoshopTo bestIllustrate…
Wikipedia
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IM • Informal vs. Formal Language
Design aClass usingonly IM
Assign
• Communication• Journalism• Use of MM• Creativity
• Usefulness• Breadth• Depth• Originality
• Communication• Originality• Artistry• Technique
How Teachers Should Use New Tools
When it comes totechnology…
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WE HUGELYUNDERESTIMATE
WHAT OUR STUDENTSCAN DO!
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http://mabryonline.org/archives/mtv
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WHYdo we
underestimate?
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Because we actually
DISRESPECTthe kids!
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Although few of us are even aware of it
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Most of usDISRESPECTour students
in a number of important ways
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Especiallyvis-à-vis
their use oftechnology
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We say (or think)things like
“My students have the
attention span of a gnat.”
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“Today’s kids can’t
concentrate.”
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“Your games are a waste of your time money and brain
cells.”
– A parent
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These things are just
NOT TRUE!
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Thinking and talkingdisrespectfully
really hurts our students…
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…who wantand deserveour respect.
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As a resultof our disrespect,what happens?
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Our studentsDISRESPECT
their educators
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Since they know technology
is the new literacy
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They see most of their teachers as
ILLITERATE
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..and theydon’t bother
listening!
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Our goal needs to be
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How Do We GetRESPECT
For each other?
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We Are All LearnersWe Are All Teachers
1.We must accept that
Involve Our Studentsin everything we do
2. We must
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3. We must
Give our students ONLY work worth respecting!
“NOLECTURES!”
– Students everywhere
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“NOWORKSHEETS!”
– Students everywhere
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“It was a worksheet on a computer – that’s not really
technology to us.”
– A student
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4. We mustrespect what the
kids find valuable…
And especiallyrespect their games!
Today’s complexgames produce
LEARNINGWITH
ENGAGEMENT
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And we shouldSTUDY THEM
andExtract the
Engaging Elements
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Following theirRULES OF ENGAGEMENT
in all ourTeaching
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“Complex”8-100 hoursNOT TRIVIAL
Today’s Games:Complexity Matters
“Mini”5 min- 2 hours
TRIVIAL
Or, at best,One-Noted
Complex Games take the same amount of time as a course (30-
100 hours)
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Have “Be a Hero” Goals
Add Frequent Decision Making
Don’t Suck The Fun Out
Provide a Strong Emotional Connection
Balance Cooperation &Competition
Personalize
Iterate
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7 Rules of Game Engagement(from complex games)
Help YourFriends
Build/Create
Be a Hero
GameGoals
SchoolGoals
Understand
Get Good Grade /Pass test
Learn the “material”
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Have “Be a Hero” Goals
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Decisions Are How We Learn
Decision
Action
Feedback
ReflectionLEARNING
LOOP
Help you reach goals
Immediate Feedback
Every ½ sec
GameDecisions
SchoolDecisions
Mostly on tests
Almost never
No immediatefeedback
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Add Frequent Decision Making
“DimensionM”
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Math - Algebra
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“Waste of Space”
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Science – Space Physics
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“The Grammar of Doom”
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English - Grammar
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“Darfur is Dying”
Social Studies
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“Food Force”
Social Studies
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“PeaceMaker”
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Social Studies
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Business: Basic Concepts
“Disney’s Hot Shot Business”
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ECON 201
Microeconomics
web.uncg.edu/dcl/econ201/trailer.html © 2008 Marc Prensky
MOREENGAGEMENT KEYS
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Today’s students alsoget Engaged through
1. Creating things they want to make
2. Voicing their opinions
3. Interacting with and affecting the world
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Today’s kids understand the power oftechnology to
help them learn…
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Because theycan make it dowhat they need
What’s different about the new technology is that it is
programmable.
– Alan Kay
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PROGRAMMINGIs making a machinedo what YOU want
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The kids knowthey are the ones
who canprogram
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The kids knowProgramming is the
Key Tool and Literacyof the
21st Century
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What needs programming?
•Our communication• The Web • Cell phones• Answering systems• Interactive video
• Our jobs• Problem solving• Personal computers• Business systems
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What needs programming?
• Our schools• Administration• Sharing• Instruction
• Our government• Legislation• Security• Enforcement• Communication
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What needs programming?
• Our homes• Thermostat• Alarm• Appliances• Stereo• DVD / Home theater
• Our cars• Cabin• Engine
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What needs programming?• Our Tools
• Blogs• Wikis• RSS• My Space• Games• Multimedia
• Our recreation• iPod / Tivo / Interactive TV• Games• Vehicles
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What needs programming?
• Our Curriculum
• Math – Problem solving
• Science – Testing hypotheses
• Languages – Dictionaries / guides
• Social Studies – Simulations
• English – Research, analysis
Things
Requiring
Programming
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What
WE Don’t yet know
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Is how to helpour kids learn to
PROGRAMIn more and moresophisticated ways
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What if we don’t?
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There is really only
ONE WAYto turn on the
lights for our kids
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Make
ENGAGEMENT OUR #1 GOAL
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We have toInvolve Our Studentsin everything we do
“for” them
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3D PRINTER
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TO IMPROVEour students’Education…
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We have toInvolve Our Studentsin everything we do
“for” them
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Get our studentsseriously involved
in redesigning their own education
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Top Down
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“YouWILL
Learn!”
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Top Down
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In the 21st century
Learning can’t be dropped on kids
They have toWANT
To learn
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We can no longer just TELLstudents what is right/best
In the 21st century
We also have toASK!
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We can no longer justhand students “content”
In the 21st century
They have to find it WORTHWHILE!
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We can no longer justhand students “content”
In the 21st century
They have to helpdesign it!
Bottoms Up!
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Tell mewhere you
want me to go,and let me get there
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Ask mewhat Ineed
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And ask what I cancontribute
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Askmy
opinion!
BALANCE
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Bottoms Up
Top Down
The issue is NOT thateducators don’t know
about engagement
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The issue is thatEngagement is changing
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Engagement is
NO LONGERSomething we can do
TO students
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withToday, we have to
In order to engage them in learning
Talk with them
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Engaging With Students
Hold School/Class Meetings
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Engaging With Students
Ask them abouttechnologiesthat relate
to what they are learning
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Engaging With Students
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Why don’t wedo better?
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Because weDon’t ask!
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Are we afraidTo ask?
“Am I boring you?”
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We can’t beafraid
to ask our students!
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“Take their Temperature”
–every day!
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They expect real work that truly affects the world
Today’s Students expect MOREthan just “relevance”
“We want… to change the
world.”– A 7th grader
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“Authentic”
=REAL
A Big Missed Opportunity For Engagement?
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… in their pocket!
Almost EVERY student already has a powerful computer…
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We should beUSING them!
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Cell Phones Are
• Powerful Computers• Inexpensive • Always in their pocket• Optimized for Communication• Full of Useful Add-ons e.g. Cameras, GPS, internet
• Easy to download to• Attachable to External input/output
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Missing? Imagination!
Skills.Languages.
Poetry. Literature.
Public Speaking. Writing.
Storytelling. History.
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Surveys. Polls.
Match-ups. Testing.
Communication. Blogging.
…and evenAssessment!
Students Could Be Using Their Cell Phones
for Learning: and Doing:
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Question
Evaluate Kidswith their tools!
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“Open Phone” Tests!!
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“You can ask harder questions”
– A Teacher
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“Most of our tests ARE open phone tests – you guys just don’t know it!”
– A Student
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How could we integratecell phones
into our teaching?
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The ONLY WAYwe will get
where we want to
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Is to let the students
help
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By listening to them!
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“Talk to us – we love to give advice.”
-- Students all over
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“[The Millennials] call the shots. Anyone who bores
them will be getting blocked, zapped and tuned
out for years to come.” – Business Week, July 12, 2006
“We’re not stupid.”-- Students all over
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Summary: Today’s kids loveDoing
Sharing their ideas and opinions
Being involved with the world
Being asked
Having choices
Creating Things that are important to them
Having Goals they want to reach
Making important decisions
Thinking about the future
Using technology themselves
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To get my __th grade classto learn ___________
In the old paradigm PAST, I would do this:
_____________________________________________
In the new paradigm FUTURE, I will do this:
_____________________________________________
and this and this… (see next)
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Today’s kids loveDoing, so I will:
Sharing their ideas and opinions, so I will:
Being involved with the world, so I will:
Being Asked, so I will:
Having Choices, so I will:
Creating Things that are important to them, so I will:
Having Goals they want to reach, so I will:
Making important decisions, so I will
Thinking about the future, so I will:
Using technology themselves, so I will:
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our
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Today’s Young Learners love to
Share…
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…but today’s adults don’t!
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“Knowledge is Power”Keep Good Information to Yourself
Digital Immigrants
“Sharing is Power”Be the first to post it
Digital Natives
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Many teachers are doing
Great Things!
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but…
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from being used by onlyOne Person,
In One School
So MuchGOES TO WASTE
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If we could justcapture, access and re-use
work already done,
we would beHALFWAY THERE
How?
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Use the most powerful technology tool
in the world
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Put it onthe Web !!!
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Get your teachers to put their good stuff on
You Tube
so others can find it !!!
If your teachers don’t know howto create a You Tube videoand upload it to the Web
Make sure they learnNOW!
(let the kids teach them)
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If You Tube is blockedIn your school today,
UNBLOCK ITTOMORROW!
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Texting in Class
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14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
1. Make the passing of standardized exams a group/team process
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2. Acknowledge publically that
henceforth students will have a meaningful voice in setting all school
policy.
Hold frequent assemblies of all concerned to hear points of view and make policy.
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14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
3. Set up only three rules for students
in classrooms:
1. Always behave ethically and look for and try to do what is right
2. Do your best to learn at all times
3. Don’t disturb anyone else in the process
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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4. Set up opportunities for
students to tell / show teachers how they’d prefer to be taught
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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5. Make it your business to
eliminate boredom from your school
Poll students as to which of their teachers/ classes are
engaging and boring and why. Investigate and take action.
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
6. Talk to 2-4 kids per day for at least a
half hour about their learning.
(If you feel you can’t spare 1-2 hrs every day to work one-on-one with kids, re-think your priorities.)
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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7.Work with both students and
teachers to implement the new “kids learning on their
own with guidance” paradigm.
Find the best examples and have the teachers share with their colleagues.
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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8.With the new paradigm, push
for to 1 to 1 computing ASAP
(Remember, technology does not work well in the old, “lecture” teaching paradigm.)
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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9. Orient your school towards
the future.
Offer classes in programming, game design, long distance
collaboration
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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10.Have your teachers teach
and practice the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in all instruction
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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11.Make all in-service training
include students
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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12.Keep the computer lab open till midnight and on
weekends.
(especially in places where technology access is an issue)
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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13.Introduce Dance, Dance
Revolution and other exergames into your Physical Education
classes.
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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14. Have students share your
school’s most effective ideas/results with the world via You Tube.
14 Things All PrincipalsCan Do Right Now
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Remember…
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Your job…
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And the role oftechnology…
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Is to empowerTHE KIDS
to learn
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Don’t
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In the name of“Standards”
or anything else
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Deny your kids theirbirthright and future!
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They’re our kids
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We owe them the best!
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And I’m surewe can all find
THE COURAGE
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to dowhat’s right for them
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so…
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Thank You –
For supportin
g the kids!
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Appendix
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
1.Find two “technologybuddies” who know
more than you:1 teacher, 1 student
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
2.Hold a Class Meetingto talk with studentsabout how they want
to be taught
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
3.Ask students for
technologiesthat could relate
to what you are teaching
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
4.Appoint a different
student as your teachingassistant for
each week of the year
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
5.“Teach” one or more lessons
with NO lecturingand NO worksheets
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
6.Make it your personal goal
to eliminate boredom from your classroom
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
7.Take your classes’
“temperature”(e.g. Ask “Am I boring you?)several times a class
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
8.Get something
unblocked
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
9.Assign homework
where the kids havethe option to work with
their favorite technologies
19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
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10.Have your students create
• an entry in the Wikipedia• a class blog
• a class Facebook(or equivalent)
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
11.Decide what topicsYou WON’T cover
in class, and replace some with future stuff
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19Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
12.Hold a teacher meeting
in a virtual world, e.g.
Second LifeTuneTown
World of WarcraftWhyville
Club Penguin
(and eventually meet students)
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
13.Do a class project around
the future(e.g. using sci-fi)
that the students suggest
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
14.Have your studentsinstall and populatean RSS aggregatorin your classroom
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19Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
15.Ask
“Who plays a gamethat has to do with
what we are studying?”
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
16.Figure out
(with your students)a way to integrate that
game into your teaching
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
17.Integrate the seven habits
of highly effective people into your instruction
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
18.Give a meaningful
Open-phonetest
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
19. Have your students help share your most effective
ideas/results with the world via
You Tube.
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19 Things for TEACHERS To Try In The Next 30 Days
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12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
1.Acknowledge publically that
henceforth students will have a meaningful voice
in setting all school policy in your district
© 2008 Marc Prensky
2.Make it your job to
eliminate boredom from your district
(i.e. make 100 percent engagement the goal)
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
3.Make the passing of
standard exams a group/team process
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
4.Talk to 2-4 kids per day for
at least a half hour about their learning
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
5.Figure out how to compete
with“after school”
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
6.Set up district-wide opportunities
for students to tell / show educators what they can do and how they’d prefer to be
taught
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
7.Work with principals and teachers to implement the new “kids learning on their
own with guidance” paradigm in all teaching
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
8.That done, get
One-to-Onecomputers
for all studentsASAP
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
9.Orient your district towards the future
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
© 2008 Marc Prensky
10.Un-ban Everything
Including cell phones and You Tube
(figure out how to get responsible use)
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
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11.Teach the 21st century
skill set in your district
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
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12.Be the advocateof the students,not the scores!
12 Things All SuperintendentsCan Do Right Now
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Thank You!
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