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1. The New Media Gap…
…Between Professors/Teachers
and Digital Age Students
E. George Beckwith, Ed.D.
National University
La Jolla, California
ebeckwit@nu.edu
2. Presentation Background
The Cambridge University Experience
!
September 2007
!
“Government should not pay for
!
educational innovations—let private
sector do it.”
3. Kids embrace technology,
Adults resist it.
*
The Immigrants
*
The Natives
* Source:
William Diehl
Cambridge U. Sep
2007
Mark Pensky
Anaheim, Oct 2007
7. Digital Age Students
A reversal of roles
! We immigrants are trying to learn the native
language and the native technology--the result is
they are teaching us.
! We are seeking to incorporate into our teaching the
technology they use to learn rather than mandating
that they learn only from the techniques that we use
to teach.
! We are sharing not only the responsibility for
learning but also the methods used to learn.
8. Quotes from the Immigrants
I like my new telephone, my computer
!
works just fine, my calculator is perfect,
but Lord, I miss my mind!
Anonymous
!
9. It has become appallingly obvious that
!
our technology has exceeded our
humanity.
Albert Einstein
!
10. Technology…is a queer thing. It brings
!
you great gifts with one hand, and it
stabs you in the back with the other.
C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March
!
1971
11. Technology... the knack of so arranging
!
the world that we don't have to
experience it.
Max Frisch
!
12. We live in a society exquisitely
!
dependent on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything
about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
!
13. Technology is a sprinter, the Law is a
!
marathon runner.
A.K.T. Rex
!
15. Jane Austen
Some
Past
Natives
Sir Isaac Newton
16. The Immigrants
Professors who don’t have a web page=
!
54%*
Professors who have never Done a
!
podcast: 60%*
Parents, Adult Relatives, Friends?
!
*Source: Kay Souter, Cambridge University
!
Conference Sept 2007
17. Are you an immigrant or a native?
What is your primary source of
!
communication?
Normal Telephone (wire or wireless(
!
Cell Phone
!
E-mail
!
Handheld Computer
!
How do you use your cell phone or handheld
!
computer?
Voice only? Immigrant
!
Text Messaging? Native
!
Web Searches? Native
!
Games Native
!
Videos Native (record and view)
!
Music Native
!
18. An Immigrant’s Attempt to
become a Native
Key Steps
! Admit what you are
! Understand and measure the Gap
! Determine how to change
! Start Changing
19.
20.
21.
22. Wiki Defined: In its simplest form, is a
!
web site that can be written upon and
edited by multiple users at once.
• Allow the creation of simple web pages
that groups, friends, & families
can edit together.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30. Podcasting
Podcasting is a new phenomena. The term comes
!
from combination of two words: iPod and
broadcasting.
Unlike traditional broadcasts, which require the
!
listener tune in at the exact time a program is
broadcast, podcasting allows the listener to download
a program from the internet when convenient and
listen to it on his/her iPod whenever and where ever
the listener chooses.
Major corporations are even doing podcasts:
!
Disney, NPR, ESPN, ABC News, BBC News, sports, arts &
!
entertainment, news, family, technology, public radio, talk
radio, morning shows--it's all there.
31. Reasons to Podcast
With podcasting, you can download the
!
audio at home on your computer and
listen to it when things are not as
hectic.
Your child's grandparents are on vacation in
!
England and will miss his band concert.
! Not anymore.
! Grandma and grandpa can download and
listen to it from the internet.
You can download your child's orchestra
!
concerts and then burn a collection of the
performances to a CD for your scrapbook.
Your child is having difficulty with the dialogue
!
the class is working on in French.
! She can download the dialogue, as spoken
by her teacher, put it on her iPod, and
repeatedly listen to it back and forth to
school, piano lessons, and swim team.
33. Instant Messaging (IM)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time
!
communication between two or more people
based on typed text. The text is conveyed via
computers connected over a network such as the
Internet.
Overview
!
Instant messaging offers real-time communication
!
and allows easy collaboration, which might be
considered more akin to genuine conversation
than email's quot;letterquot; format.
34. Additional IM Advantages
Instant messaging allows instantaneous
!
communication between a number of parties
simultaneously, by transmitting information
quickly and efficiently, featuring immediate
receipt of acknowledgment or reply.
In certain cases IM involves additional
!
features, which make it even more popular,
i.e. to see the other party, e.g. by using
web-cams, or to talk directly for free over
the internet.
35. Texting
Similar to IM but uses cell phones instead of
!
computers/blue toothapplies
Applies to short messages of 160 characters
!
sent to another cell phone subscriber.
Some common phrases used are brb (be right
!
back), gtg (got to go), ttyl (talk to you later,
etc.
36. Texting Abbreviations
AAP - Always a pleasure
ADP - Any Day Now
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFK - Away From Keyboard
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
A/S/L - Age/Sex/Location
ATM - At The Moment
B/F - Boyfriend
B4 - Before
B4N - Bye For Now
BBIAF - Be Back In A Few
BBIAM - Be Back In A Minute
BBL - Be Back Later
BC - Because
BF - Best Friend
BFF - Best Friends Forever
BFN - Bye For Now
BOL - Best Of Luck
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
CU - See You
CYA - See You
D/L - Download -or- Down Low
DIKU - Do I Know You?
FWIW - For What It's Worth
45. YouTube, LLC
Type Subsidiary of Google
Founded February 15, 2005
Headquarters San Bruno, California, U.S.
Key people Steve Chen, Founder & CTO
Chad Hurley, Founder & CEO
Jawed Karim, Founder & Advisor
Owner Google
Slogan Broadcast Yourself
46. YouTube Overview
YouTube is a video sharing website where users
!
can upload, view and share video clips.
YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three
!
former PayPal employees.[1]
The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash
!
technology to display a wide variety of video
content, including movie clips, TV clips and music
videos, as well as amateur content such as
videoblogging and short original videos.
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had
!
reached a deal to acquire the company for US$ 1.65
billion in Google stock. The deal closed on
November 13, 2006.[2]
47. YouTube Continued
Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while
!
registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited
number of videos.
Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older
!
(e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content).
The uploading of pornography is not allowed.
!
Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear
!
onscreen to the right of a given video.
In YouTube's second year, functions were added to
!
enhance user ability to post video 'responses' and subscribe
to content feeds.
49. Web 2.0
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of
!
web-based communities and hosted services — such
as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies —
which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing
between users.
The term became popular following the first O'Reilly
!
Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.
Although the term suggests a new version of the
!
World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to
any technical specifications, but to changes in the
ways software developers and end-users use the
internet.
According to Tim O'Reilly, quot;Web 2.0 is the business
!
revolution in the computer industry caused by the
move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to
understand the rules for success on that new
platform.
50. Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management
--> wikis
systems
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging (quot;folksonomyquot;)
stickiness --> syndication
51. Web 3.0
Web 3.0 is a term that is used to describe various
!
evolution of Web usage and interaction along
several separate paths.
These include transforming the Web into a
!
database, a move towards making content
accessible by multiple non-browser applications,
the leveraging of artificial intelligence technologies,
the Semantic web, the Geospatial Web,[citation
needed] or the 3D web.
More often it is used as a marketing ploy to hype
!
incremental improvements of Web 2.0.
52. Internet2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
Internet2 or UCAID (University Corporation for
!
Advanced Internet Development) is a non-profit
consortium which develops and deploys advanced
network applications and technologies, for education
and high-speed data transfer purposes.
It is led by 212 universities [2] and partners with 60
!
companies in areas from the networking (Cisco
Systems, Nortel[1] and others), publishing (Prous
Science) and technology industries such as Comcast,
Intel and Sun Microsystems. quot;Internet2quot; is a registered
trademark [3].
53. MoSoSo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
MoSoSo, or mobile social software, is software --
!
generally on a mobile phone or on a laptop computer
-- that facilitates social encounters, or mobile social
networking by associating geographical location and
time with one's own social network.
The basic idea of a MoSoSo is to overlay a location and time
!
element to the idea of digital networking.
So it enables you to find people in your vicinity and at that
!
time for social, sexual/dating or business networking.
It's worth noting that the time variable is often overlooked in
!
analysis of MoSoSo dynamics. [1]
An emerging trend within the MoSoSo community is
!
MoSoSo advertising. There is already experimentation
of this going on in the UK and Europe.
54. P2P
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
P2P or P-to-P may refer to:
!
Pay-to-play in gaming, politics, and music
!
Procure-to-pay, a sales & customer service
!
term
People to People Student Ambassador
!
Program, an ambassador program for
students
Partner-to-partner network, a collaboration
!
portal
55. Flickr
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
!
Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services
!
suite, and an online community platform.
It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications.
!
In addition to being a popular Web site for users to
!
share personal photographs, the service is widely
used by bloggers as a photo repository.
Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online
!
community tools that allow photos to be tagged and
browsed by folksonomic means.
61. Changing Immigrants to Natives
Teaching Zack to Think Series Overview
Welcome to the Teaching Zack to Think course series.
!
These courses are designed to prepare educators to be
!
Web literate.
A full range of skills is covered including basic search
!
techniques and advanced cross referencing of Web sites
for critical thinking.
The Advanced course focuses on the social side of the
!
Web:
! blogs,
! wikis,
! podcasts,
! Internet Safety
! Web ethics.
! YouTube
The Blogging for Educators course introduces the world
!
of blogging in the classroom.
62. It is time…
It is time for immigrants/educators at all
!
levels—pre-Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle
School, High School, and Colleges to do their
homework on the potential of digital age
tools and gaming for addressing the
problems of educating our natives/children
today and in the future.
63. What we need to do…
We professors/teachers—the immigrants--
!
need to learn, as Marc Prenky (2007),
proposes, to talk to the students/digital age
youth—the natives—in their language.
Perhaps as Timothy VanSlyke (2007)
!
believes, it may not be necessary to
completely change our traditional approach to
teaching but we definitely need to incorporate
digital age applications into our methods.
64. There are adult Natives
Among us!!!
HEADLINE: USA Today Wednesday,
!
November 7, 2007-- TODAY!! (see page
12D)
“Free online materials could
save schools billions—Fla.
Reading panel first to OK
‘wiki’ elementary
textbooks.”
65. K-2 Teacher Uses Wikipedia and
YouTube to prepare for and
teach Class (USA Today, 11/6/07)
Teacher Dixon Deutsch at First Bushwick
!
Elementary School in Brooklyn, New York
uses Free-Reading.Net an open reading
source for K-12 students.
He sees a short demonstration of the
!
program on YouTube
Florida is proposing a similar program for
!
schools statewide—pending approval by
State Education Commissioner.
66.
67.
68. Conclusion
It was noted early in this paper that
!
56% of professors/teachers do not
have their own webpage and 80%
(Souter, 2007) have never done a
podcast; having a webpage and doing a
podcast may not be key to becoming a
native, but the effort could possibly
make each of us less of an immigrant
and at least help us better understand
our students’ accents.
The USA Article shows that teachers and
!
administrators in New York and Florida
are becoming Natives—we should follow
their example.