7. TABS
Twitch Speed
Active Learning
Connected
Parallel Processing
Technology as Friend
Conventional Speed
Passive Learning
Standalone
Linear Processing
Technology as Foe
8. TABS
CURIOSITY 1
What part of old
fashioned teaching
methods should be
discarded and what
parts should be
kept in this age of
“Digital Natives”?
9. TABS
CURIOSITY 2
Should the digital
native students
learn the old ways,
or should their
digital immigrant
educators learn the
new?
10. TABS
CURIOSITY 3
How can teachers use
technology and brain-
based strategies to
motivate students
and increase their
academic performance?
11. TABS
OUR STORIES…
Compelling
Rewarding Earnest
Universa
l
12. TABS
Takumi in Japan
Free pressure curriculum & Saturday classes
Decline in PISA achievement & ranking
Student discipline worsens
Advances in technology
Small # of teachers familiar with technology
13. TABS
LuWanna in America
Core curriculum dilemma
Low MEAP scores & failing grades
Management & instructional crisis
Graduation rate continues to decline
Teachers need technology support
15. TABS
21st Century Literacy
To become fully literate in today’s world,
students must become proficient in the new
literacies of information and communication
technologies. Therefore, literacy educators have
a responsibility to effectively integrate these
technologies into the literacy curriculum.
International Reading Association
16. TABS
Action Plan
Scaffold learners with multimodal projects
using brain based strategies and technology
Connect learners with audiences beyond the
classroom and outside their own country
Emphasize vocabulary with multimedia and
online collaborative tools such as class
website, blog, wiki, etc.
17. TABS
Our Future Pursuits
More brain-based learning strategies
Cultural differences in methodologies from
global and local perspectives
What blocks teachers’ learning of new
technology
21st Century curriculum & new common core
