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- 1. Marc Prensky [email_address] www.marcprensky.com © 2007 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky Handheld Learning 2007 October 11, 2007 London, UK
- 5. © 2007 Marc Prensky How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for Twenty-first Century Success – and How You Can Help!
- 6. How many of you have sent an email in the past 24 hours? © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 7. “ Email is for old people ” – A student © 2007 Marc Prensky – A headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 8. “ Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future… © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 9. … a posture which may be uncomfortable… © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 10. … but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.” -- Charles Handy © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 11. © 2003 Marc Prensky 21 st CENTURY EDUCATOR © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 12. © 2007 Marc Prensky CHANGE TIME Our Lives © 2007 Marc Prensky We are here Discontinuity: Digital Technology
- 14. © 2007 Marc Prensky Yahoo search Google search Email IM iPod vPod TV You Tube Hard drives Flash memory … and tool switching is already close to instantaneous
- 15. © 2007 Marc Prensky CHANGE TIME Our Students’ Lives © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 16. [our kids were] “born to the idea of rapid change” -- Nicola Griffith in Slow River (1995) © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 17. © 2007 Marc Prensky The change that is THREATENING to the Immigrants…
- 18. © 2007 Marc Prensky The change that is THREATENING to the Immigrants… … is EMPOWERING to the natives!
- 19. © 2007 Marc Prensky It means the nature of education is changing!
- 20. © 2007 Marc Prensky Inventing new tools to solve problems 21 st Century+ Solving problems with the tools we have Pre - 21 st Century
- 21. © 2007 Marc Prensky Helping Students Invent New Tools? How many teachers see their job as
- 22. © 2007 Marc Prensky That’s why Handhelds are SO IMPORTANT!
- 23. “ We grow up interacting – through computers and through our cell phones – and that’s how we learn. – A graduate student © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 24. © 2007 Marc Prensky Yet, we have been educating our kids with the same generation of technology AS THIS:
- 26. © 2007 Marc Prensky Medicine has moved into the 21 st century; WHY HASN’T EDUCATION?
- 27. “ Why do we have to adapt to the past? Why shouldn’t we be taught to in different ways!” – A College student © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 28. Why You Should Want Your Kids to Have Handhelds © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 29. © 2007 Marc Prensky CHANGE YEARS Timeline © 2007 Marc Prensky 5 10 15 20 25 30 Technology 1 billion times more powerful Machines more powerful than the human brain Implanted / wearable Real-time environments Handheld computers with Power of today’s super-c Mobile phone wallets
- 30. © 2003 Marc Prensky 21 st CENTURY EDUCATOR © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 31. © 2007 Marc Prensky When will all this change END!??
- 33. We have to GET USED TO the Idea of Rapid Change! © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 35. © 2007 Marc Prensky The world our kids inhabit is already hugely different from our own
- 36. “ You look at technology as a tool. We look at technology as a foundation – it’s totally integrated into what we do.” – a student © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 39. “ Feel the fear – and do it anyway!” -- Elizabeth Moon in The Speed of Dark (2003) © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 45. Of course, our kids can always get the hi-touch non-offshorable jobs… © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 49. Who ARE these people, anyway! © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 52. Today’s younger learners are NOT the ones our systems (and teachers) were designed and trained to teach! © 2003 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 59. “ [Young people] are not just using technology differently today, but are approaching their life and their daily activities differently because of the technology.” --Net Day “Speak-up Day” Summary © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 63. “ The single largest differentiator … is the social network.” -- Jack Mckenzie, SVP Frank N. Magid Associates © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 64. “ The single largest differentiator … is the social network.” -- Jack Mckenzie, SVP Frank N. Magid Associates © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 66. © 2007 Marc Prensky Yes, some have more access than others, BUT THEY ARE ALL DIGITAL KIDS
- 67. © 2007 Marc Prensky They are great at sharing, teaching each other, and getting what they need
- 68. © 2007 Marc Prensky And we need to help make this happen!
- 69. © 2007 Marc Prensky Instead of bemoaning the “digital divide”, we can be a big part of the Solution!
- 70. © 2007 Marc Prensky That’s another place Handhelds can help!
- 71. © 2007 Marc Prensky WHY are so many kids tuning out of today’s school?
- 74. “ Whenever I go to school I have to ‘power down’ ” – a high school student © 2003 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 75. It’s not attention deficit – I’m just not listening! © 2005 Marc Prensky © 2005 Marc Prensky
- 77. © 2007 Marc Prensky WHY are our kids SO BORED In school?
- 78. © 2007 Marc Prensky 1. We’re not teaching them the right stuff
- 80. © 2007 Marc Prensky Because we are too focused on the past
- 82. “ My passion is my future.” – a student © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 83. © 2007 Marc Prensky CHANGE YEARS © 2007 Marc Prensky 5 10 15 20 25 30 Technology 1 billion times more powerful Machines more powerful than the human brain Implanted / wearable Real-time environments Handheld computers with Power of today’s super-c Mobile phone wallets
- 84. © 2007 Marc Prensky We have to integrate the future into our curriculum!
- 86. © 2007 Marc Prensky For Logical Thinking: 2 semesters geometry? PROGRAMMING Integrated into all subjects
- 87. © 2007 Marc Prensky Kids need to learn HTML Cyber English:
- 88. © 2007 Marc Prensky Kids need to learn SIMULATION Cyber Social Studies
- 89. © 2007 Marc Prensky Kids need to learn MULTIPLE LANGUAGE TEXTING Cyber Foreign Languages
- 90. We have to teach Our kids Twenty-first Century Skills! © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 99. © 2007 Marc Prensky How do I do all that in this era of Standards and Assessments ?????
- 101. © 2007 Marc Prensky My approach: “ Curriculum Deletion”
- 102. © 2007 Marc Prensky Right now we are full You can’t add something about the future unless you delete something from the past
- 103. © 2007 Marc Prensky WHY are our kids SO BORED In school?
- 104. © 2007 Marc Prensky 2. We’re not teaching in the right way
- 106. © 2007 Marc Prensky THINGS HAVE CHANGED We’re not in the 18 th century anymore, Toto
- 114. We were the people © 2007 Marc Prensky Who Showed Students The Light
- 115. © 2007 Marc Prensky Today’s kids Grow up in the light
- 118. We want to be the people © 2007 Marc Prensky who Show Students the Light
- 121. © 2007 Marc Prensky We pull students out of the light into darkness!
- 128. … where they’re highly motivated to learn, both on their own and with their peers… © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 132. © 2007 Marc Prensky “ After School” (21 st century learning) Future Learning Stuff they Know they Need PULLED BY THEM = Exciting Today’s Education is Bifurcating Quickly “ School” (Credentials) Legacy Stuff Stuff that is Irrelevant PUSHED ON THEM = Boring
- 133. “ We decided to bypass the schools.” – Deborah Schwartz, MOMA © 2003 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 134. “ Avoid the schools!” – Dr. James Rosser © 2003 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 135. “ The greatest opportunity for change is currently found in after-school programs and informal learning communities.” – MacArthur White Paper © 2003 Marc Prensky © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 138. © 2007 Marc Prensky “ There’s so much separation between how students think and how teachers think” -- a (female) high school junior
- 143. © 2007 Marc Prensky “ After school,” the kids have already found a better way to learn
- 144. © 2007 Marc Prensky “ A New Paradigm” For Learning
- 145. © 2007 Marc Prensky Kids being taught Kids teaching themselves (with guidance) Old Paradigm New Paradigm BOREDOM ENGAGEMENT
- 146. The old paradigm requires no technology The new paradigm demands it! © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 147. In the old paradigm, technology can hinder. In the new paradigm technology is required! © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 154. © 2007 Marc Prensky Today’s kids know The power of technology…
- 155. © 2007 Marc Prensky Because they can make it do what they need
- 157. © 2007 Marc Prensky PROGRAMMING Is making a machine do what YOU want
- 158. © 2007 Marc Prensky The kids know they are the ones who can program
- 160. The kids know Programming is the Key Tool and Literacy of the 21st Century © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 167. What WE Don’t yet know © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 168. Is how to help our kids learn to PROGRAM In more and more sophisticated ways © 2007 Marc Prensky
- 172. © 2007 Marc Prensky web sites: www.marcprensky.com www.socialimpactgames.com www.gamesparentsteachers.com www.games2train.com Continue the Dialog! [email_address]