Staff Delv Web 2

The Why and How

Why are we here?

Who are the kids we are teaching?

Who Are We?

Who ARE these people, anyway!

not “ little us’s” anymore!

Today’s younger learners

are NOT the ones our

systems (and teachers)

were designed and trained

to teach!

Are Different!

5-10,000 hours Video Games

250,000 emails and IMs

10,000 hours on cell phones

20,000 hours TV (incl. You tube)

500,000 commercials

< 5,000 hours book reading

Digital Natives

2 billion ring tones per year

2 billion songs per month

6 billion text messages per day

What are Digital Immigrants?

Assume that learners are the same as they have always been.

Assume the same methods that worked for the them when they were students will work for their students now.

That assumption is no longer valid.

Today’s learners are different.

Digital Immigrant Accent

Printing out our e-mails

Knowing phone numbers

Not Going to the Internet First for info

Thinking “Real Life” happens only off-line

Thinking we know what our students want and need

One size fits all

Doing & Gameplay

One Thing at a Time

Linear Stories

Presenting & Telling

Multi-tasking

Personalized to them

Random Access &

Exploring Options

Delivering content

Being Engaged

Face-to-face

Going Online

Digital Natives Digital Immigrants

Our Digital Natives Need to be Engaged

Even if you are the most engaging old-style teacher in the world, you are not going to capture most of our students’ attention the old way.

“ Their short attention spans,” as one professor put it, “are [only] for the old ways of learning.”

They certainly don’t have short attention spans for their games, movies, music, or Internet surfing. More and more, they just don’t tolerate the old ways—and they are enraged we are not doing better by them.

“ Teachers think they are so cool with their PowerPoint Slides … The fact is, it is just like writing on the white board.”

The Importance of Creativity

Dan Pink – A Whole New Mind

Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

Can a computer do it faster?

Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of abundance?

Skills For the Future

relationships

collaboration

creativity

innovation

problem-solving

pattern detection

synthesizing

adding value

Web 2.0 Tools for the Future

Blogs

Anatomy Blog

Podcasting

AP Blog/Podcast

Wiki's

Faith Lutheran Tablet PC Wiki

Anatomy Wiki

Flat Classroom Project

RSS

Google Reader

Web 2.0 Tools for the Future

Google Earth

LitTrails

Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us

Media Sharing

Flickr

Collaborative Documents

Google Docs

What If . . .

Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend on their slates which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!

Teacher’s Conference 1703

Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?

Principal’s Association 1815

Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.

National Association of Teachers 1907

Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or ciphers until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education.

The Rural American Teacher 1928

Students today depend on these expensive fountain pens. They can no longer write with a straight pen and nib. We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of learning how to cope in the real business world which is not so extravagant.

PTA Gazette 1941

Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The American values of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.

Federal Teachers 1950

You can’t use those calculators on the test. If I let you do that, you wouldn’t ever learn how to use the tables in the back of the book and use interpolation to figure out your trig ratios.

High School Math Teacher 1980

We can’t let them use calculators in middle school. If we do, they’ll forget how to do long division or how to multiply three digit numbers by three digit numbers. What will they do when they don’t have access to a calculator?

Middle School Math Teacher 1989

Why are you writing a grant for a classroom set of graphing calculators? We’ll never be allowed to use them and – even if we can – that’s only one class, and parents in other classes will never buy them for their students.

High School Math Teacher 1993

Why would you ever want the Internet for student use? It’s just the latest fad – have them use the library.

District Employee 1995

You don’t need a web page. Who’s ever going to look at it?

District Employee 1995

Teachers will never use email.

Teacher on a District Committee 1996

Why do you want network drops at every teacher’s desk? You’re not thinking of getting a computer for all of them are you?

Building Administrator 1999

What can you do with an LCD Projector that you can’t do with an overhead projector?

Member of School Accountability Committee 1999

Why are we talking about students having laptops in high school? I don’t think most parents will even give their kids their old computer, much less buy them a new one.

Member of Laptop Committee 2000

Why would I want to put my grades on the web? Who’s going to look at them?

Teacher 2001

I don’t think we’ll have a wireless network anytime soon.

Network Administrator Spring 2005

Turn off and put away all Cell Phones, iPods, and Electronic Devices during class!

Faith Lutheran Student Handbook NOW

What If . . . We’d listened?