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• technology infusion
• technology infusion
• technology infusion
• What you have for the first time in history is an area where the average kid  knows more than the average teacher when it comes to technology
• there's not one teacher in the United States that is teaching today, that went  to K-12 schools when the World Wide Web was in existence
• Generation www.Y looks at staff development and technology infusion in a  different way
• teachers don't need to know technology skills in order to use technology
• Generation www.Y trains students to partner with teachers to reform schools. It  uses the student as a change agent rather than just an object of change.
• In Generation www.Y, you teach the students the technology skill and you hope  that by pairing the students with the teachers, that the students will help the  teachers teach better with technology.
• Just like any partnership, the different partners bring different talents to the  table. In this particular case, the kids are bringing their technology  expertise, which exceeds, in most cases, the teacher's. They also bring a little  bit of knowledge of how to work with adults and create lesson plans. The  teacher, of course, brings to them the content, the teaching skills, the  knowledge of child development, and experience creating lesson plans. Upon  completing the project, the kid knows a lot about technology and a little about  teaching. The teacher, of course, knows a lot about teaching and a little bit  about technology. You put them together and great things happen!
  

  • partner tech-savvy kids with teachers
• Another major advantage that teachers learn is that these kids are a resource  and they can learn from the kids. One of the things that teachers complain about  with normal staff development is that there's no support and there are no  resources in the school. They take a workshop and then they go back to their  school and there's no follow-up, they can't remember some of the details, and  they don't have time. The Gen www.Y model produces the resources and the tech  support in the form of the kids.
• A lot of people now are beginning to realize that  schools won't change. That technology will never be infused into the curriculum  in meaningful ways, unless the kids are involved in a big way. Not just  peripherally, but as leaders and as co-partners in this whole effort.  
   
  
•   So now the kids are involved because now they have the chance to  change this boring industrial type education, whereas before they had no power.  The point to Gen www.Y is empowering kids

  • empowering kids to change the style of their own education
• So it's not only training in-service teachers in schools how to use technology,  but also working with new teachers or preservice teachers.
  
• The number one most often cited comment from partner  teachers who have worked with kids is that they far prefer learning from kids  than learning from adults. The reason for that is, teachers go into business  because they like to work with kids. Now they're more willing to use technology  in their lessons because they know they've got a partner. The teachers are still  the teachers, except now they have an ally, the kids, at least with regard to  technology.
   
       The number one comment  that students make is that they didn't realize how difficult it is being a  teacher. Now they can empathize with the teacher because if they have this many  problems doing one 50 minute lesson, what is like for 5 days a week, 180 days a  year? Getting kids involved in learning has been something that's been talked  about for centuries, but technology is finally a way to do it.  
   
  

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• Austega explores the impact of technology on school education over the next  two decades. By direct work and by reflective and collaborative research in this  area, Austega seeks to encourage strategic management of this technological  change process. In particular it seeks to maximise educational benefits while  minimising risk and addressing critical issues such as changes to school  structures and organization, industrial relations and school/system  financing.