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NetSavvy: Building Information ... - Google Book Search
This easy-to-follow guide can help students and teachers ' even the most technology-resistant ' learn to solve problems from sources like Internet sites, news groups, chat rooms, e-mail, and other Internet resources. Topics include: Creating your own lesson plans using sample lesson planners Applying frameworks for grade-level objectives and skills Dealing with information-technology overload Solving any information challenge with six critical steps Helping students harness the web with simple tips An important resource for today's classroom, Net Savvy can help educators become leaders rather than followers in the new high-tech, high-speed, digital era.
educational-origami » Understanding Digital Children - Ian Jukes
At one point Ian summarises the differences between Native Learners and Teachers. I think this is analogous with Prensky's “Digital native and Digital immigrants”.
Facebook? The challenge of Generation Text - ParentMap
“We really see that kids, with the Internet and the speed of computers, have made people change the way they do work,” Ferguson says. “Everything is accessible. They do research differently now than we would have five years ago.”
Drape's Takes: No Teacher Left Behind?
* In spending so much time to create (shallow?) connections with such a wide range of educators on a global level, isn't it possible that one might also neglect local relationships that are equally (if not more) important?
* What can we do to consistently maintain a healthy perspective?
Shifting gears to a higher plane:
* Do we really think that all teachers need to be this connected?
* Can every teacher (human being) handle all of the information? Are they "bad teachers" if they can't?
* And what about those teachers that take 25 minutes just to create a Gmail account (PEBKAC)? Will it really be worth my time - and theirs - to help them enter the 21st Century? Or are the benefits of such efforts simply not worth the costs?
I guess what I'm really wondering is this:
* Is it ever OK to simply leave some teachers behind?
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There is a difference between leaving someone intentionally 'behind' and choosing to work only with those willing to change. There is a difference between teaching with technology and using technology to engage learners. There is a difference between being a lifelong learner and being too busy to learn.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Letting Go
we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
- There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven’t yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people think of as their very way of life. - datruss on 2008-03-30
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we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
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It is about honesty. It is about being truthful to our students about the flaws of our educational system. It is essential that we open a dialogue with our children to help them design their educational processes. Together we can do more than simply patch the existing system, and we need to do it soon.
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Brick Wall « Je Pense…
- Not every school will be able to afford one computer per child, let alone have the luxury of using parent-purchased cell phones for classroom instruction. - datruss on 2008-05-27
Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy! | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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So if I were to make the post title into a statement it would be:
Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,
students have a wide spectrum of digital competence
positively correlating to their digital exposure. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy,
students have a wide spectrum of digital competence
positively correlating to their digital exposure.
The digital native, the digital naive, and the digital divide. | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I haven’t written too many quotable quotes in my day… but I like this one:
I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives.
mrmoses.org » What You’re Missing Out On with Your Asus EEE or Why You Should Have Bought an OLPC XO
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It was pretty amazing. I want to stress again that
she found this game on her own
she learned how to play this game on her own
she’s three - datruss on 2008-04-08
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