Powerpoint Presentation presented by Chad M. Gesser, Owensboro Community and Technical College, July 15, 2009

1. Teen Technologies
Chad M. Gesser
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Owensboro Community and Technical College
July 15, 2009

2. Anything in particular you’d like to
learn/discuss in this session?

3. “Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no
longer the people our educational system was designed to
teach.” -2001
Prensky, Marc . “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants “. On the Horizon . Vol. 9 No. 5, October
2001)
“…our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated
language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a
population that speaks an entirely new language.”
Digital Natives: “…’native speakers’ of the digital language of computers, video games
and the Internet. Their entire lives have been characterized by interaction and use of
information technology. “
Digital Immigrants: “…those not born into the digital world but have, at some later point
in their lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new
technology”

4. Web 1.0: here’s a web page I’ve
created, I control the information you
read, you digest it…now move along
---totalitarian Web 2.0: here is information I’ve created
and shared with you. You can share it with
others, we can discuss it, it can be built upon,
it can be easily manipulated. Care to
collaborate?
---decentralized/democratized
“The Web is no longer just a way to receive
information – it is a medium for commenting,
collaborating and creating.”
Oblinger, Diana. "Growing Up with Google - What it Means to Education,'" Emerging Technologies
for Learning, vol. 4, (March 2008).

5. * Students have to use a
computer in my courses
Integrating web 2.0 for communication, learning, the
classroom, and beyond
Excerpt from C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (originally published in 1959)
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/207socimagination.htm
* Web 2.0 tools require one to be creative, abstract, and
requires critical thinking. These characteristics assist me in
efforts to help the student develop the “sociological
imagination”: “…the individual can understand his own
experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself
within the period, that he can know his own chances in life
only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his
circumstances.”
* Access, creation, collaboration, and distribution of information is causing
cataclysmic changes in individual values and beliefs (identity and interaction);
social customs and behavioral expectations (communication and networking),
social organization (Iran, China), and social change

6. Web 2.0 and Beyond

7. Resources re: social networking tools, web 2.0, and social media
http://mashable.com
http://www.go2web20.net/
http://oreilly.com/web2/arc
hive/what-is-web-20.html