Digital Natives in Web2.0

Digital Natives
In 2007, one class of year 9 Information Software Technology students embarked on a journey to mash the syllabus with Web2.0 tools.
This is what they can be proud of achieving!

Jargon
Teachers call what you have been using this year Web2.0 (we like labels)
You just call it ‘the internet’

In a few minutes ...
Create a website in seconds and post information, images, video, hyperlinks and sound
Create a video and share it with the world
Follow friends and share information
Work together online

Live and learn without Microsoft Office

What we didn’t do
Produce Word documents for written assessments
Cut and paste things you ripped off Wikipedia into a Leaflet or Poster
Cut and paste things you ripped off into a Power Point presentation

Digital Natives
You can blog! and your blogs have been viewed and read by thousands of people.
Your work is UNIQUE in Australia. You are the first class to complete an entire year using technology that most teachers don’t know exist.

You stopped searching
You have stopped ‘searching’ and started using the internet to CREATE information
You have added to the internet and are PUBLISHERS and creators, not just users
You can use tools that SHOWCASE your learning in ways an exam or poster never can. You have a DIGITAL PORTFOLIO.

You can/have
Created ways others can communicate with you digitally.
Create online resources for ANYTHING
Built web-applications THAT WORK and do USEFUL things
Take information and MANIPULATE it to produce NEW things

You remix the web
You take things, change things, add things and publish new things - YOU are REMIXING information to suit your own goals.

You are connected
You can make videos
You can post them to the world
You can connect the syllabus to REAL solutions using online technology
You use EMAIL effectively to communicate ideas, solutions as well as messages

You are virtual
You are creating the worlds biggest (and most talked about) 3D world for students in Skoolaborate
You know and work with students from around the world
You have made new friends with people who you may never have KNOWN

You are special
You can show you ‘know’ in ways that teachers often have no understanding
You can create text, images, sound, video, in 2 and 3 dimensions.
You are NOT limited to working using basic tools such as a poster or leaflet

You can manipulate
Images - you can create, remix and manipulate visual information to suit a new purpose
Video/Audio - you can remix, edit, publish and manipulate digital video and images to create new information.

What did you do to show your learning in other subjects in 07?

Word Document

Publisher (Poster)

Publisher (Leaflets)

Power Points

Speeches

You can do MORE in LESS time, BETTER.

Fast Company
You achieved syllabus milestone faster than any other year I have taught the subject
You got better results than any other year I have taught the subject
From ‘hello world’ to your last post - you SHOW what you have learned
You are CREATIVE THINKERS

Student 2.0
You do things that are beyond the understanding of many adults - easily
You critically select the best tools to solve problems (higher order thinking)
You use the internet to accomplish more than ‘searching’.

Showing Off
Your work is showcased in Second Life as exemplary. www.jokaydia.com - the largest edu space outside of the USA
Your work attracted the interest of Alan Lavine - Director of Learning, NMC in the USA - ( www.nmc.com ) - a digital eduction research company in the USA.

Showing Off
The University of Sydney will use your work as part of it’s research in to ‘digital identity’ ...

Showing Off
Your work was showcased in Learnscope, Australia’s major EduTech project - and your work stood up to that of students who are at TAFE!
Your work is seen as a ‘model’ for online learners
Your work was nominated as part of the EduBlog Awards held in London.

What next?
What are the best tools you can choose next year to SHOW teachers your work?
Why can’t you blog a project or homework in any subject?
What tools can you choose?

Classroom 1.0 tools
Textbook
Worksheets - fill in blanks, find-a-words
Copying off the board
Office documents
Writing Books

You can use MORE

Classroom 2.0 tools
Wordpress
FlickR
Photobucket
Google
Wikis
Wufo
Zoho
PBwiki
Wikispaces
Twitter
VoiceThread
YouTube
Sketch Up
Second Life
Zamzar
Blogger
Slideshare
del.icio.us

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