2. Radical Change
• Both students, education and the world is
changing because of social media
• The education system is designed to teach
students of another generation
• Students now think and process differently
from their predecessors.
• Thinking patterns have changed based on the
sheer volume of social media interactions
3. The problems that exist in the
world today cannot be solved by
the level of thinking that created
them.
— Albert Einstein
4. DIGITAL NATIVES
• The students of today, who are all ‘native
speakers’ of the digital language. The people
who have grown up in a world of digital
communications, computers, the Internet and
social media.
• They are used to receiving information
fast, they like to multitask, they prefer
graphics and thrive on instant gratification and
rewards
5. DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS
• In contrast, those not born in the digital world
reveal their non-native status through a
"digital immigrant accent" that manifests itself
in a number of ways—printing out a digital
document to edit it rather than editing it
online, for example (Prensky, 2001a, p. 4).
6. The Challenge:
• Many educators are still speaking that ‘foreign
language’…and outdated form from the pre
digital age
• Because of this divide, these educators are
struggling to teach the entire population
which all speak, act and function in new and
different ways.
7. What can we do?
• We must integrate the FUTURE into
curriculums
• Students need stimulation
• The kind of learning we need is where
students learn in new ways, where they are
highly motivated to learn, both on their own
and with peers.
• This is already happening…but outside of
school.
8. A new paradigm
• Students need to be taught within a
technological paradigm
• Participatory, self motivated, engaged.
• Web 2.0 has emerged, and it is time to lift
students from boredom into engagement.
