The document explores the impacts of new media on learning, examining child development stages and how different media forms affect learning behaviors. It highlights concerns regarding the effects of constant media engagement on cognitive processes and educational methods. The discussion emphasizes the need for education to adapt to the diverse knowledge landscape produced by digital media and the importance of fostering complex learning abilities in students.

1. How Media is Changing the Way We Learn Tammy Stephens CEO, The Stephens Group LLC CETPA 2009

2. Today’s Discussion Part 1:Framing the conversation around child development and new digital media Part 2: Concerns about the effect of new media on learning Part 3: The Gutenberg Revolution Part 4: What is learning? Part 5: How does instruction need to change for the Post Gutenberg mind? CETPA 2009

3. Part 1: Framing the conversation around child development and new digital media CETPA 2009

4. Piaget’s Four Levels of Development Sensori-motor stage : 0-2 Pre-operational stage : 2-7 Concrete operational stage : 7-12 Formal operational stage : 12+ CETPA 2009

5. Sensori-motor Stage: 0-2 CETPA 2009

6. Sensori-motor Stage: 0-2 TV CETPA 2009

7. Sensori-motor Stage: 0-2 TV DVD/ VCR CETPA 2009

8. Sensori-motor Stage: 0-2 TV DVD/ VCR CETPA 2009

9. Preoperational stage : 2-7 CETPA 2009

10. TV, DVD, VCR Preoperational stage : 2-7 Computer Video Games CETPA 2009

11. Concrete operational stage : 7-12 CETPA 2009

12. Concrete operational stage : 7-12 Computer Word Processing CETPA 2009

13. Concrete operational stage : 7-12 Computer Word Processing TV (3 hours) Music (1 hour) Video Games (1 hour) CETPA 2009

14. Concrete operational stage : 7-12 Computer Word Processing TV (3 hours) Music (1 hour) Video Games (1 hour) Social Networking CETPA 2009

15. Formal operational stage : 12+ CETPA 2009

16. Hours Spent Per Day on Media CETPA 2009

17. What % of Teens: Social Network? Have their own blog? Instant Message (IM)? Create content and media to share on the web? CETPA 2009

18. Homework Instant Messaging (71%) Blogging (19%) Creating Media (57%) Social Networking (55%) CETPA 2009

19. 45% of teens have their own cell phone 33% of teens have a cell phone that can txt message 80% of teens that have cell phones never shut them off CETPA 2009

20. 60% of 7-12th graders “talk on the phone, instant message, watch TV, listen to music, or surf the Web for fun at least some of the time as they do homework When they are on a computer, 62% are also using another form of media and 64% are engaging in multiple computer activities at the same time. CETPA 2009

21. Part 2: Concerns about effects on New Media on Learning CETPA 2009

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24. Part 3: The Gutenberg Revolution CETPA 2009

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26. Part 4: What is learning? CETPA 2009

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28. Part 5: How does instruction need to change to support the Post Gutenberg mind? CETPA 2009

29. Socio Technical Change Anything that we can Google becomes less important for us to remember Implications for Education CETPA 2009

30. Socio Technical Change Anything that we can Google becomes less important for us to remember Implications for Education How do we get students to make good use of all that knowledge? CETPA 2009

31. Socio Technical Change Anything that we can Google becomes less important for us to remember Implications for Education How do we get students to make good use of all that knowledge? How will having that much and that kind of knowledge lead us to think differently? CETPA 2009

32. Socio Technical Change Anything that we can Google becomes less important for us to remember Implications for Education How do we get students to make good use of all that knowledge? How will having that much and that kind of knowledge lead us to think differently? How are learning theories impacted when knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner? CETPA 2009

33. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education CETPA 2009

34. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge CETPA 2009

35. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge Ability to self-organize CETPA 2009

36. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge Ability to self-organize Promote more complex learning CETPA 2009

37. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge Ability to self-organize Promote more complex learning Understand the context of media CETPA 2009

38. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge Ability to self-organize Promote more complex learning Understand the context of media The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information CETPA 2009

39. Socio Technical Change We live in a time of rampant change, increasing complexity, uncertainty, and change From chaos habits of knowledge and enrichment will begin to form Implications for Education No more pre-packaged knowledge Ability to self-organize Promote more complex learning Understand the context of media The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information Shaping your environment and work style so you can better use your attitudinal networks CETPA 2009

40. Socio Technical Change Internet is creating new models of participation and sharing Implications for Education Challenges the design of learning environments CETPA 2009

41. Socio Technical Change Internet is creating new models of participation and sharing Implications for Education CETPA 2009

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43. Socio Technical Change The organization and the individual are both learning organisms Implications for Education Web 2.0 applications can support this CETPA 2009

44. Clarkstown Central School DistrictK-12 "Constructing lesson plans and unit plans is no longer a solitary activity. It's a collaborative process that's happening not only with teachers on a building level team, but with teachers at a grade level from a variety of schools. Our teaching is made better as a result of this collective intelligence.” ~John Krouskoff, Director of Technology CETPA 2009

45. References: Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., & Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century : McArthur Foundation. Lenhart, A., Madden, M., & Hitlin, P. (2005). Teens and technology, Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation : Pew Internet & American Life Project. Nicholas, C. (2008). Is Google making us stupid? Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008 . Rideout, V. J., Elizabeth A. Vandewater, and Ellen A. Wartella. (2003). Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers : The Kaiser Family Foundation. Stephen, J. (2006). Everything bad is Good for you: How today's popular culture is actually making us smarter : Penguin Publisher. Weigel, M., & Heikkinen, K. (2007). Developing Minds with Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era : Harvard University. CETPA 2009

46. Contact Information The Stephens Group LLC 203 Prospect Ave. Long Beach, CA 90803 [email_address] http://tstephens@thestephensgroup.com (800) 408.4935 CETPA 2009