Digital Natives and Digital Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants in the Jewish Immigrants in the Jewish

Studies ClassStudies Class

Daniel Helddanielmheld@gmail.com

Today’s PlanToday’s Plan

Defining Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives

Exploring and debating learning styles

General web resources

Jewish content resources

Jewish web-based methodologies

Digital Natives and Digital Natives and ImmigrantsImmigrants

A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3.

A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later.

Examples:

A digital native might refer to their new "camera"; a digital immigrant might refer to their new "digital camera".

To find an address, a digital native might turn to www.maps.google.com while a digital immigrant might open a map book.

Digital Native Learners

Digital Immigrant Teachers

• Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.

• Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources

• Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.

• Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.

• Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text.

• Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.

• Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.

• Prefer to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially.

• Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.

• Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact.

• Prefer to learn “just-in-time.” • Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the

exam).

• Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.

• Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards

• Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.

• Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests.

Changes in Teaching Changes in Teaching and Learningand Learning

Reading the Reading the newspapernewspaper

How would a digital immigrant read the paper?

How would a digital native read the paper?

www.nytimes.com

BloggingBlogging

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

BloggingBlogging

Nach Yomi - http://pereknachyomi.blogspot.com/

Politics Blog - https://www.edline.net/pages/TCK/Classes/CPW4U___-01

Ethics Class Blog - http://ethics5768.blogspot.com/

Creating a Blog http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=69c7625333bedafbfcaf

The Google FamilyThe Google Family

Google Reader

Google searches

Google Timeline

Google Maps

Google ReaderGoogle Reader

http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Google TimelinesGoogle Timelines

http://www.google.com/views?q=Jewish+view:timeline&vwms=&vwme=&hl=en&vws=-758450&vwe=-681450&sa=N&ct=tlhist

Google MapsGoogle Maps

http://maps.google.com/

Google searchesGoogle searches

birthday bill clinton

birthplace bill clinton

president israel

weather jerusalem

1 canadian dollar in israeli shekels

www.google.com

WikipediaWikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia project.

As of November 3, 2007 it had over 2,075,000 articles consisting of over 902,000,000 words

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Using wikipedia in Using wikipedia in classclass

Searching for up-to-date information

Creating your own wiki - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikipedia in Hebrew http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%99

FacebookFacebook

• As of October 2007, 42 million registered users. Expected to pass 60 million users by the end of the year

• Ranked a one of top 10-20 websites - number one for photos with over 8.5 millions photos uploaded daily

• On October 24, 2007, the Associated Press reported Microsoft had bought a 1.6% share of the company for $240 million.

Facebook as a Pedagogic Tool

http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1071870092

Teaching TextsTeaching Texts

Texts online

How to read texts online

Class projects

Mechon MamreMechon Mamre

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/

ORT Bible IIORT Bible II

http://www.bible.ort.org/intro1.asp?lang=1

Structure of Mikra’ot Structure of Mikra’ot GedolotGedolot

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Eelsegal/TalmudMap/MG.html

Structure of a Daf of Structure of a Daf of GemaraGemara

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudPage.html

Teaching Gemara Teaching Gemara OnlineOnline

http://www.e-daf.com/

Class ProjectsClass Projects

Talmud Group ProjectsTalmud Group Projects

http://www.chatrh.org/elu_metziot/

http://www.geocities.com/pittinsky/

WebquestsWebquests

http://jwit.webinstituteforteachers.org/~naphhoff/webquest/

Hagadah onlineHagadah online

http://www.chatrh.org/haggadah/index2.htm