Digital Generation

The Digital Generation Nick Hodge Professional Geek, Microsoft Australia Slide version 1.2

Who is Nick Hodge?

http://nickhodge.com

Top 100 Bloggers in Australia, http://on10.net/

21+ years of IT Industry

(including Apple, Adobe)

Grad Dip Tech Mgmt, MBA (Tech Mgmt), La Trobe

3 rd Wave and 4 th Wave of Computing

Global Connectivity is transforming life & work

History: language, writing, printing press, internet

Now at Microsoft

Microsoft is at the pivot-point of many technologies

Microsoft technology is a part of our daily lives

What is a Professional Geek?

1974 & 2007 Source crikey.com.au ABS

Microsoft Australia: Education

Unlimited Potential (UP)

US$250million, 5 year program

Partners-in-Learning

It encompasses several programs through which Microsoft is committing $10 million in cash and resources over five years

Innovative Teachers Network, Award

A program that supports excellence in integrating ICT into the curriculum. Teachers can visit our secure online portal for resources, professional development and collaboration tools.

Microsoft co-sponsor of VITTA 2007 Awards

Microsoft Partners in Learning: Victoria

Creating centres for ICT best practice CeLL started in 2005 with 28 primary and secondary schools across Victoria. Each received professional learning via conferences and leadership forums, with opportunities to explore emerging technologies such as PDAs and interactive white boards.

Barwon South West , Grampians Region , Eastern Metropolitan , Gippsland , Hume , Loddon Mallee, Northern Metropolitan , Southern Metropolitan , Western Metropolitan

A New Education Environment Secure Environment Manage Information Build Connections Improve Operations Find, use, share – Create and inspire Proliferation of form factors and networks Knowledge assets Reduce costs Need to keep systems up and running Team collaboration Protection against threats

21 ST CENTURY LEARNING: CONNECTIONS

Today

As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.

As Clay Shirky points out, “All that stuff the elders said about rock and roll? They pretty much nailed it. Miscegenation, teenagers running wild, the end of marriage!”

The Digital Generation Gap

Let’s think about Elvis for a moment

“ Big media no longer controls the conversation”

The size and impact of Live Messenger

90% of 90%

Stats:

Myspace: >100 million users

YouTube: >100 million clips watched daily

Blogs: >70 million

Digital Literacy Challenge

Students : Emotional maturity

Anyone older than 25 : Digital skills

Myspace

“ If you are not in MySpace, you don’t exist”

55% of online teens aged 12-17 have created profiles on social network sites with 64% of teens 15-17

Younger boys are more likely to participate than younger girls (46% vs. 44%) but older girls are far more likely to participate than older boys (70% vs. 57%)

Digital Identity ownership

Source: boyd, danah. (in press) “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, Identity Volume (ed. David Buckingham).

Self-Learning Resources

Digital Generation Gap

“ Difference of Opinion” : Growing Up in the Digital Age

http://www.linkedin.com/

Professional Social Networking

Edublogs, live.com

http://edublogs.org/

http://www.live.com/

RSS Feeds

From education.au: What is RSS?

Scale Quality Education Outcomes

Individualised learning once produced fine craftsmen. The master taught the apprentice. Only a few had the time or opportunity to gain the depth of knowledge needed to achieve excellence, and excellence was rare. Then industrial-age minds saw scale economies in teaching many people at once. Learning became institutionalised, and the individual either adapted to the teacher and the standard material being taught or missed out. Now... learning can again become individualised , and again produce excellence.