The document discusses teaching digital natives and education 2.0. It advocates empowering students to do unique and great things. It notes the world has changed from a vertical system to a horizontal one with individual content creation. It also discusses moving away from teacher-centered lectures to more interactive teaching that fosters independent thinking. PowerPoint is not everything and presentations should be conversations not lectures.

1. Teaching
Digital Natives
Education 2.0
Prof Hiran Amarasekera, 2012
Department of Forestry and Environment Science,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
staff.sjp.ac.lk/hiran
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2. Empower students to do unique, great things
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3. World has changed from Vertical system to Horizontal
Individual Content
Creation
Eg Encyclopedia
Britannica to
Wikipedea

4. Presentation (Teaching) Basics
Teacher centered formal lectures,
vs interaction with students,
which foster independent thinking
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5. PowerPoint is not everything
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6. Knowledge café style
Don't give talks - hold conversations
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7. Presentation basics
Prepare Presentations, not Teleprompters
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8. Facilitating Collaborative learning
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9. Mind Maps on Reducing Global Warming
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10. What tools can you use to teach students?
1. Google for research
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11. • Google
• Blogging – blogger, wordpress, tumblr
• Wiki – wikipedia, wikispaces
• Multimedia sharing – flickr, youtube
• Podcasting – itunes
• VLE s – moodle, blackboard
• Social Bookmarking – delicious, digg
• Social Networking – facebook, linkedin
• Microblogging – twitter
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12. Seven Ways to Social Media
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13. Social Media
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14. Social media to interact with students
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15. Life is short, youth is finite, and
opportunities endless.
In order to do great things, we must
attempt great things.