mengel38 Engel on 2009-03-26
Gaming in eduction
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30 Jul 09
Greg StevensTeachers would no longer be the providers of information but instead would be the explainers, the context providers, the meaning makers, and the evaluators of information that kids find on their own.
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We vastly underestimate our students' ability in technological areas and vastly inflate the threat of harm.
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21 Jul 09
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Compared with students' technology-infused lives outside of school, the traditional classroom is a somber place.
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07 Jul 09
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Somehow, schools have decided that all the light that surrounds kids—that is, their electronic connections to the world—is somehow detrimental to their education. So systematically, as kids enter our school buildings, we make them shut off all their connections. No cell phones. No music players. No game machines. No open Internet. When kids come to school, they leave behind the intellectual light of their everyday lives and walk into the darkness of the old-fashioned classroom. What are they allowed to use? Basal readers. Cursive handwriting. Old textbooks. Outdated equipment.
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16 Jun 09
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11 Jun 09
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Few young people read widely. In terms of knowing the world you lived in, as a kid you were pretty much left in the dark.
Until you got to school.
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Many 21st-century kids grow up literally surrounded by light, from the first flash of the camera at the moment of birth. They progress to seeing the world through the glow of the TV tube, the sheen of the silver screen, the interactive animations of the computer screen, the LCD on their cell phone, and the screens on their Game Boy Advance consoles, Nintendo DS Lites, and PlayStation Portable Systems
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is somehow detrimental to their education
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t's their after-school education, not their school education, that's preparing our kids for their 21st-century lives—and they know it
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ind out how students want to be taught
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Ask teachers who use active learning to share their practices with their colleagues
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Today's kids grow up in the light. They're deeply immersed in it long before educators ever see them.
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The world is no longer a dark, unknown place for today's school kids. Kids are not intellectually empty. Even though some of what they know may be incomplete, biased, or wrong, they arrive at school full of knowledge, thoughts, ideas, and opinions about their world and their universe.
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Somehow, schools have decided that all the light that surrounds kids—that is, their electronic connections to the world—is somehow detrimental to their education. So systematically, as kids enter our school buildings, we make them shut off all their connections. No cell phones. No music players. No game machines. No open Internet. When kids come to school, they leave behind the intellectual light of their everyday lives and walk into the darkness of the old-fashioned classroom. What are they allowed to use? Basal readers. Cursive handwriting. Old textbooks. Outdated equipment.
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bored
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03 Jun 09
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30 Mar 09
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- Annouce that henceforth students will have a meaningful voice in setting all school policy regarding technology use. Hold assemblies that include teachers, students, parents, administrators, and technologists to hear all points of view and establish school policies regarding such issues as blocked Web sites and use of cell phones.
- Make it your business to eliminate boredom from your school—make 100 percent engagement the goal. Poll students as to which of their teachers and classes are engaging and which are boring and why. Investigate and take action.
- Talk with 2–4 students each day for at least one-half hour about their learning. If you feel you can't spare that time to engage with kids, you may need to rethink your priorities.
- Work with both students and teachers to implement the new "kids teaching themselves with guidance" model. Eliminate lectures and busywork from your school. Ask teachers who use active learning to share their practices with their colleagues.
- Promote technology use and move toward one-to-one computing.
- Orient your school toward the future. Offer classes in programming, robotics, long-distance collaboration, and cutting-edge science.
- Keep the computer lab open late and on weekends, especially in areas with limited technology access.
- Introduce computerized exercise games that kids really enjoy, such as Dance Dance Revolution, into your physical education classes.
- Have students share your school's most effective practices and results with the world via YouTube.
Prensky's Principles for Principals
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26 Mar 09
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mengel38 Engel on 2009-03-26
I don't often think of TV as connecting kids to the world since it is not interactive...... but I will need to think about this I guess.
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Kids today are connected to the entire world around the clock, in real time, through their media and their myriad personal devices, both electronic (such as TV) and digital (such as the Internet and cell phones). In the 21st century, young people certainly don't grow up with perfect understanding of the world—after all, they are still kids.
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mengel38 Engel on 2009-03-26
So true!
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25 Feb 09
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their electronic connections to the world—is somehow detrimental to their education. So systematically, as kids enter our school buildings, we make them shut off all their connections.
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22 Feb 09
Alice BarrCompared with students' technology-infused lives outside of school, the traditional classroom is a somber plac
marcprensky ascd reading professionaldevelopment usmreadwrite2009
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16 Feb 09
Emmanuel BETHOUXJe relève quelques points : L'auteur note le décalage entre les pratiques et la vie quotidienne des élèves "digital natives" et ce que leur propose aujourd'hui l'école qui fonctionne selon un modèle dépassé Résultat : les élèves s'ennuient à l'école. A l'uniformité de l'école, l'auteur oppose l'ère de la personnalisation (liste d'amis, photos, blogs, sites de réseaux sociaux comme Facebook ou MySpace). Les écoles selon lui sont peu enclines à découvir les passions des jeunes. Il fait des propositions pour ouvrir celles-ci :
-donner aux apprenant la possibilité d'utiliser à l'école les tic (jeux électroniques, blogs, videos..)
-Etre à l'écoute des besoins des élèves dans ces domaines en leur donnant la parole (débats, rencontres d'experts...)
- connecter les élèves au monde (jumelage virtuel)
- préparer les élèves aux enjeux de l'avenir (réflexion sur les compétences nécessaires à acquérir au 21e siècle : compétences technologiques, développer la pensée critique, les techniques de résolution de problèmes, le travail d'équipe et la collaboration, l'éthique, un sens civique pour les enjeux mondiaux). -
12 Nov 08
Tim SparacinoWhy schools need to embrace students' technology-infused lives
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Tim SparacinoWhy schools need to embrace students' technology-infused lives
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