teaching digital learners creating cognitive shift
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Why is it important to change how we
teach?What are the mindsets of digital learners?
How can YOU be a
facilitator of change?
What is my perspective? What is my attitude?
# Communication & Media Devices in your home?
The Consumer Electronics Association of America estimates that the average American home has 26 different electronic devices for communication &
media.
Less than 5000 hours readingOver 10,000 hours playing video games20,000 hours watching TV
Average
College Grad
Average amount
of time spent per day among
8-18 year-olds
Watching TVs & videos 3:51Listening to Music 1:44Using a Computer 1:02Playing video Games :49Reading :43
Think differentlyProcess information differentlyBrains have physically changed
Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
-Marc Prensky
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No one likes change except a wet baby.
--Anonymous
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
-Robert Solow, economist, Nobel Prize winner
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Where’s the interactive
whiteboard?!
Robert Garmston
All new practices; not extend past practices
New organizational ways of working
Challenge previously held values
Must gain new knowledge & skills
Re-thinkRe-envisionRe-inventRe-alignRe-energize
Can you spot the digital immigrant?
…is a process, not an event.…is accomplished by individuals.…is a highly personal experience.…involves developmental growth.
According to Shirley Hord
This too shall pass.
ProjectInitiative
Strategic planNew Product
Program
Plan It DO It
Improve &
Maintain
Destroy & Re-
Imagine
Continuous Improvement
BOLD
Leaps
We need to invent Digital Native methodologies for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us.
-Marc Prensky
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What? What have I learned about teaching digital learners and making a cognitive shift?
So what? What difference does it make to my teaching?
Now what? What steps can I take to make the most of what I have learned?
“Be the change you want to see.”-Gandi