So who are the Digital Native Generation?
And how do we, as teachers, create valuable
learning for them and with them?
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Students enrolling in Kindergarten this year
will graduate from high school in 2020
How are we, as educators, preparing
these students
for their post-school lives?
How are we looking beyond the current school
year with 2020 vision?
Thursday, 22 October 2009

The Digital
Native
Generation ...
Other labels:
Wired Generation
Generation D (Digital)
MTV Generation
Nintendo Kids
Digital Natives
Generation M (Mobile / Multi-tasking)
Digital Immigrants
Gen Y
Gen X
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What is their
techno-profile?
• Identity / profile expressed increasingly
through technology
• Social networkers and regular, borderless
communicators/collaborators
• Multi-taskers & media-meshers/remixers
• Technologically brave BUT NOT necessarily
computer literate - what’s the difference?
Thursday, 22 October 2009

1/3 of students’ time outside school
(excl. sleep) is spent watching TV!
(1999)
Source: Bransford et al, 1999. How people learn. P. 26
What’s changed since 1999?
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Graphic source: Rainie, L. (2005)
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Wes Warner: Repurposing Education
http://www.slideshare.net/iteachict/qsite-conference-2115610
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For more info on these diagrams see:
Social Technographics
explained
Forrester Research
http://www.slideshare.net/jbernoff/social-
technographics-explained?src=embed
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Graphics source: Rainie, L. (2005)
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Graphics source: Rainie, L. (2005)
Thursday, 22 October 2009

A UK survey conducted in June 2006 of 1,003 11-16 year olds
and 1,003 parents (NCH, 2006) found:
• 33% of young people regularly use the Internet for
blogging
and ...
• 79% said they use Instant Messaging regularly
(including 59% of the 11 year olds in the group).
NCH (2006). Get I.T. safe: Children, parents and technology survey 2006.
Retrieved April 28, 2007 from:
http://www.nch.org.uk/uploads/documents/Get%20IT%20safe%20report.pdf
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So what does all of this mean for us as educators?
How do we create meaningful
and authentic learning opportunities
for our students with ICT?
How is our teaching informing and shaping our
students’ digital landscape?
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* ICT integration is a mandatory part of
the NSW Board of Studies (AU) curriculum - accept it
* ICT literacy for teachers is a standard in criteria for
recruitment - it is no longer acceptable for teachers to
be content with their own semi-computer literacy and/or
be unwilling to up-skill
* But the curriculum is CROWDED - time management is
vital
* ICT must be connected to specific learning goals and
outcomes
* ICT must be engaging (for both teacher and student)
* ICT must be pedagogically meaningful
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Teachers should join the learning environment
WITH their students
and step down from ‘centre-stage’ teaching
Place technology into the hands of students
In authentic learning, carefully and
thoughtfully constructed,
the technology will become
INVISIBLE
in the learning process
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Want to learn more?
Visit sites belonging to dynamic and
inspirational educators!
Add these to your professional learning network (PLN)
http://weblogg-ed.com/
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1480
http://mscofino.edublogs.org/
http://www.happysteve.com/
http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
http://betch.edublogs.org/
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Like these images?
Sources ...
Made available under Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
From:
www.flickr.com/photos/95118988@N00/15900081 (Bubble)
www.flickr.com/photos/57021227@N00/2055043731 (Beast)
www.flickr.com/photos/30379316@N00/326772174 (Chalk)
www.flickr.com/photos/82312837@N00/466722575 (Student in Class)
www.flickr.com/photos/61417564@N00/2307488713 ('Bridge 243’)
www.flickr.com/photos/11979533@N00/441921094 (2007 Web Trend Map)
www.flickr.com/photos/42173959@N00/94181532 ('Matrice de services 2.0’. web2collage2)
www.flickr.com/photos/75016602@N00/120022801 (Group of students. 'my students’)
www.flickr.com/photos/11071053@N00/77287556 (Teen with camera. 'Auteur')
www.flickr.com/photos/59521823@N00/1020561071 (Half face 'fake fear')
www.flickr.com/photos/39802787@N00/2120504747 (3males. '3o Encontro Brasileiro de Parkour')
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/298065213 ('Sisters’)
www.flickr.com/photos/59521823@N00/1671980804 ('project 365: day 47’)
www.flickr.com/photos/76454756@N00/355538580 ('Day 93 - Creepin9 wit ma peeps3’)
www.flickr.com/photos/59521823@N00/2375465641 (Faces)
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Presentation by:
Mira Baird
mirabaird@gmail.com
twitter: click2
and
Matthew Kearney
The University of Technology
Sydney, Australia
Thursday, 22 October 2009