43. Why do we examine what we teach?
Do we teach in the world our kids
understand and learn?
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46. Do we teach in the world our kids
understand and learn?
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Web2.0?
The power of Web 2.0 is about personal
involvement.
It empowers users to communicate and share,
using, new and more user-friendly tools, learning
from each other.
These are our students…do we really know them? The typical 18 year-old today…
Knows The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
Has never used a card catalog to find a book.
Has always known Text has being hyper.
Babies have always had a Social Security Number
They have never had to “shake down” an oral thermometer.
Everyone has always known what the evening news was before the Evening News came on.
Has no remembrance of the Berlin Wall…
Always known the Humvee to be available to drive on the streets…
Has never “rolled down” a car window
Has grown up with bottled water
May confuse the Keating Five with a rock group
… has had rap music in the mainstream
More than 75% were latchkey kids
Introduced to Jack Nicholason as “the Joker”
Phone calls are not meant to be private
MTV has never featured music videos
Roughly half of their professors will be male and half female
Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre
World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born
Thanks to…
SO that ’s the experiences they DON’T have, but what experiences DO they have that define who they are?
We can start by looking at the world they live in. It isn ’t your grandmother’s world, or your father’s world. It isn’t even your older sister’s world. It changes expotentially every day!
And what about their School World? --By the time today ’s 6-year old is 21:
22,000 hours of TV; 500,000 commericials ¼ million emails 12,000 hours of video games 10,000 hours on the phone,
Let ’s visit that information again: 22,000 hours of TV; 500,000 commericials ¼ million emails 12,000 hours of video games 10,000 hours on the phone,
AS OPPOSED TO 9,000 hours in school; 4,000 reading.
Do these experiences impact students?????? So much so that we have a NEW generation known as…
--This generation is known as the Screenagers (online, view everything on a screen)
--Digital is language of choice --Their brain is bombarded with digital digital digital!! Everywhere except school!
When we continue to do things in the same way we ’ve always done them, is the question…
“ What’s the matter with kids’ today?” OR…
Or is the question, what ’s the matter with US today?
So we MUST ask ourselves, Do we have the brain of a 21 st century teacher?
Are we preparing our students for today ’s job search? http://www.roanoke.com/editorjob/interactive.html
Are we preparing out students to publish their opinion to THE WORLD? (click on the graphic on this page)
Are we preparing our students to publish to the world (click on the graphic)
So what changes do we need to make to teacher toolbox?
Whatever the changes are we make individually, we know that the new characteristics of our teaching tools have to have these attributes: --web is the platform; --sharing is inherent; --tools facilitate communication and interaction
Do those attributes describe YOUR classroom? Our schools?
Does your classroom look more like this?
Or this?
What does it mean to teach in the 21 st century? What are the attributes?
Some of our disconnect has to do with our hesitancy to change…..
… .TOOLS! These are web2.0 tools. Tool with three attributes
