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Essential Questions -
Essential Questions -
- What is a Digital Native?
- How do we connect digital learners with the teaching of traditional subjects?
- As a teacher, what do you wish your kids did better /more of /could do?
- How can technology help?
My Goal... is to get you thinking...
Digital Natives Defined -
Digital Natives Defined -
"Today’s kids crave tools that facilitate networking. As nimble multi-taskers, kids use hyperlinks/text and instantaneous random access seamlessly, as they do their homework, talk on the phone, listen to music, download movies, surf the Web, while maintaining multiple simultaneous conversations on a chat line. Using technology transparently, without marveling at it, or wondering about how it works, today’s generation have grown up speaking digital - this is their native language - and they speak it fluently; they are digital natives."
(Prensky, 2001a, 2001b; Monitor Today 2004; Stepp 2004).
Source - The InfoSavvy Group - http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Articles_files/ndl.pdf
The differences between digital native learners and digital immigrant teachers.
Source: www.apple.com/au/education/digitalkids/disconnect/landscape.html
Digital Native Learners
- Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.
- Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.
- Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text.
- Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.
- Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.
- Prefer to learn “just-in-time.”
- Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.
- Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.
Digital Immigrant Teachers
- Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources.
- Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.
- Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.
- Prefer to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially.
- Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact.
- Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam).
- Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards.
- Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests.
Content Area Ideas and Examples -
Content Area Ideas and Examples -
I can't tell you how to teach, but hopefully my ideas will get you thinking...
How do you teach Language Arts?
How do you teach Language Arts?
Writing -
Writing -
PowerPoint Poems - Poetry fits very well with Powerpoint... one thought per slide...
Photostory / Digital Storytelling -
Maple Sugaring Field Trip -
Reading -
Reading -
Reading Response Blog- This is a weekly assignment for my students. Feel free to read my directions page on the blog...
- I use a local blog server but this can easily be done using edublogs or another service.
Mr. Henshaw Journals- - This was a great project which engaged all students with the book Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary.
- Follow the links and you'll note that we used a combination of class and student wikis for this project.
Kerpoof
- This is a great kid-friendly site! The Movie projects are intuitive and a good predecessor to teaching kids to work in Movie Maker or iMovie
How do you teach math?
How do you teach math?
- The software is downloadable and can be used effectively even without a SMARTboard!
Here is a copy of the sample I showed in my presentation:
Student Wikis -
Student Wikis -
Resources -
Resources -
Dave’s Websites, Wikis and other Resources
Email - dmendell [at] wssd.org
Wiki – www.mendell.wikispaces.com
Student Wiki – www.mendellstudentwikis.wikispaces.com
Class Blog – http://davemendell.edublogs.org/
Reading Response Blog - http://srsteachers.org/blogs/dmendell/
Additional Resources
Bubbl – http://www.bubbl.us
Kerpoof – www.kerpoof.com
Wikispaces – http://www.wikispaces.com
Edublogs – http://www.edublogs.org
SMARTNotebook - http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Board+software/default.
Web Sudoku - http://www.websudoku.com
CBox - http://www.cbox.ws/
InfoSavvy Group - http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Handouts.htm
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