Teaching the Digital Generation
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This document discusses strategies for teaching character to students in the digital age. It begins by outlining some principles for character education, including that every teacher is a character formator and education involves more than just covering curriculum. It then analyzes some challenges facing today's students, such as overuse of technology, a sense of entitlement, and constant exposure to cruel media images. The document proposes some classroom activities and strategies to build character, such as modeling good behavior, emphasizing manners and empathy, using rewards systems, and focusing on character during unstructured times. It stresses the power of teachers to positively influence students and provides recommendations for committing to character development.
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Teaching the Digital Generation
- 1. By Mann Rentoy Teaching the Digital Generation: Classroom Strategies to Build Character
- 2. Raising Children of Character in a Wired World
- 4. “For the first time we are preparing children for a future we cannot clearly describe.” - David Warlick SteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2011
- 5. The 21st Century isn’t “coming” – it’s here.
- 7. CATALYST Principles •Every Teacher is a Character Formator
- 8. CATALYST Principles •Not just another subject
- 9. CATALYST Principles •Education is not just covering curriculum
- 10. CATALYST Principles •No other better way to teach character than through the power of our example
- 11. CATALYST Principles •The teacher is the most important teaching tool.
- 12. CATALYST Principles •The school is only as good as its teachers.
- 13. Assault on Today’s Children Video GamesToday’s Child Violence in Media PornographyMaterialism Hedonism
- 14. Assault on Today’s Children Religious Indifference False Heroes Softness Divorce Alcoholism Moral Relativism Drug Addiction
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- 19. Saying please when we’d like something thanking people (waitresses and clerks, for example) when they do us a service holding a door for the person behind us not talking in movie theaters
- 20. turning off our cell phone when we’re in a group setting covering our mouth when we yawn or cough using language that doesn’t offend
- 21. all these are small but meaningful ways of trying to make life a little more pleasant for the people around us. CHARACTER
- 22. If we fail to teach these everyday habits of courtesy and consideration to our children, we will not prepare them to be socially competent and likable people.
- 23. By Rafe Esquith STeach Like Your Hair is on Fire
- 24. By Hal Urban SLessons from the Classroom 20 Things Good Teachers Do
- 46. REALITY CHECK: Teens are now 40 percent lower in empathy levels than three decades ago, and in the same period, narcissism has increased 58 percent.
- 51. FB Live
- 52. Followers Likes
- 53. Crowdsource
- 54. IMO
- 55. Feelings
- 56. Craving for Constant Connection (ICYMI)
- 58. In the US, 11 Teens are killed everyday.
- 60. Text Tilt Trauma
- 62. 60 pounds of pressure on the neck
- 64. Insatiable need to be noticed validated entertained Insatiable need to be
- 77. Substitute Brain Thinking in Headlines Need for Instant Response (Instant Gratification) Inability to Memorize
- 85. AIRPLANE MODE is not just for Airplanes.
- 88. Will connecting at this moment really help me achieve my goals?
- 91. Because the best things in life do not happen Online.
- 95. If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
- 96. Teach the great character strengths: •By your example •By your direction •By your verbal explanations
- 97. Very important to teach the students: delayed gratification!
- 100. S Board Game Time
- 101. Jigsaw Puzzles
- 102. Gardening
- 105. The Little Prince
- 106. Play/Theater
- 107. S SOME MORE IDEAS
- 108. 1. Rewards System 2. Student of the Year Recognition 3. Stop-Watch System 4. Search for the Most Outstanding Class Adviser 5. Search for the Most Innovative Teacher 6. Cooperative Learning Activities 7. Performance Tasks 8. Starting a Class with a Workload 9. Class Website 10. Class Excellence Award
- 110. Good Deeds Bowl
- 111. Merit/Rewards
- 113. Trophy Technique
- 114. Compliments Game
- 117. The Road that leads to two paths…
- 119. The most important thing he did as a teacher.
- 120. Never let the demands of your job cause you to forget that each one of your students is a feeling- thinking human being. For education to be effective, it must be personal. - George Isaac Brown
- 121. The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. - John Dewey
- 122. - Eye contact - Shaking hands - Smiling
- 123. Second Most Important Thing He Did as a Teacher: Teach Manners and the Golden Rule
- 124. If manners were an animal, it would be an endangered species. - Henry Rogers
- 125. Choosing an Atmosphere Rude Courteous Inconsiderate Considerate Disrespectful Respectful Offensive Polite
- 126. The Power of Words
- 127. 4 Pillars of Civilization (Being Civil) SThank You SSorry SPlease SI give my word
- 129. Introducing the youth to appropriate role models
- 130. Emilio Advincula
- 131. Maria Fe Sotelo
- 134. LOGO Raise a Generation of Children with BiG HEARTS
- 135. Kesz Valdez
- 137. Nick Vuijic
- 138. LOGO IN THE END teachers HAVE TO BE THEIR HEROES!
- 139. The Power of the Teacher to Impact the Lives of the Students
- 140. REFLECT ON THIS: All Teachers leave their marks on children everyday.
- 141. REFLECT ON THIS: Some of those marks are temporary. But some are indelible.
- 142. 4 Exercises to Make Teachers Realize Their Power
- 143. 1 Recall a teacher who inspired you or wounded you.
- 144. 2 Read Haim Ginott’s Quote Everyday
- 146. 3 Have a Staff Discussion of the ways teachers have impacted their lives positively and negatively.
- 147. 4 Meditate on the former students who have come back to thank you well after they have left the classroom.
- 148. “Practice what you preach… But don’t forget to preach what you practice!” - Tom Lickona
- 149. Everything that happens inside the Classroom IS Character Building.
- 151. 1. Commit to Raising A Moral Child Research: parents who feel strongly about their kids turning out morally usually succeed because they committed themselves to that effort.
- 152. 1. Commit to Raising A Moral Child Research: teachers who feel strongly about their kids turning out morally usually succeed because they committed themselves to that effort.
- 153. If you really want to raise a moral child, then make a personal commitment to raise one, and don’t stop until he does.
- 154. 2. Be a strong Moral Example
- 155. Each day ask yourself: “If my student had only my behavior to watch, what example would he catch?”
- 156. 3. Know your beliefs and share them.
- 157. They will hear messages that counter your values: music, videos, television, internet.
- 159. 5. Use discipline as a Moral Lesson.
- 161. 7. Reflect on the behaviors’ effects.
- 165. Without morals, the young do not learn how to deal with others correctly and appropriately.
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- 167. By Mann Rentoy Teaching the Digital Generation: Classroom Strategies to Build Character