the digital native vs. the digital immigrant why we aren’t teaching for the future…
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The Digital Native vs.
The Digital Immigrant
Why we aren’t teaching for the
future…
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Natives vs. Immigrants… Digital Natives:
• Born with technology in their lives
• Constantly using technology on a daily basis
Digital Immigrants:• Teachers who have adapted to
use technology
• Trained to use technology through in-services and workshops
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Incorporating What THEY Know…
Get their input…• Let them make decisions and help
with curriculum instruction
• Use their methods and systems of communication
• Google, Wiki, Digital Cameras, IPods, AIM…
• Help them solve problems using technology as a resource
• Using games, internet, programs to guide their learning
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Get Them Involved… Use technology as a means of testing
their knowledge• They have adapted to getting instant
feedback
• Quía quizzes, Wikispaces,
online computer games,
WebQuests
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Responsibility and Technology…
Let them share their ideas• Incorporate them in decision
making processes• In the classroom and school wide
• Find out how they want to use technology in your classroom
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Adapt to the Natives…
Make an effort to Adapt and Connect to with them!• Be captivating and creative
• Connect to your students and the world they live in
• Give them a choice!
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The Infamous… Cell Phone… The cell phone’s potential
• Messaging, downloading, graphics, pictures, web, video…
• Interactive lessons, quizzes, questions
Be engaging! • They are less likely to use their phone if they
are more interested in what you are doing
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Manipulating Technology…
Programming Capabilities…• Cell phones, ring tones, web pages, games
and software
• Let them be hands on and creative…it’s in them
• Maximize what they
know and you will
learn in the process
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Teaching for Tomorrow…
We teach for the past…we need to teach for the future…
• Teach them for what they will encounter… technology capabilities of the future
• Get speakers to talk to them about cutting edge technology…tape it…put it on the web!
• How can you provide your students with the uses of technology in your classroom?
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Understanding Their Language… Technology in school and after school
• Understand their language• Cookies, blogs, wikis….
• Create a technology rich in school experience for your students
• Their out of school lives are full of technology
• Find their interests…harness the power
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Helping them evolve…
Right now…• They have no voice on their
education
• Value their opinions and suggestions
• Major changes need to be made school wide and district wide
• Evolve with them…let technology serve a purpose in your classroom.