Digital Natives

In 2007, one class of year 9 Information Software Technology students embarked

on a journeyto mash the syllabus with Web2.0 tools.

This is what they can be proud of achieving!

Jargon

•Teachers call what you have been using this year Web2.0 (we like labels)

•You just call it ‘the internet’

In a few minutes ...

•Create a website in seconds and post information, images, video, hyperlinks and sound

•Create a video and share it with the world

•Follow friends and share information

•Work together online

Live and learn without Microsoft

Office

What we didn’t do

•Produce Word documents for written assessments

•Cut and paste things you ripped off Wikipedia into a Leaflet or Poster

•Cut and paste things you ripped off into a Power Point presentation

Digital Natives

•You can blog! and your blogs have been viewed and read by thousands of people.

•Your work is UNIQUE in Australia. You are the first class to complete an entire year using technology that most teachers don’t know exist.

You stopped searching

•You have stopped ‘searching’ and started using the internet to CREATE information

•You have added to the internet and are PUBLISHERS and creators, not just users

•You can use tools that SHOWCASE your learning in ways an exam or poster never can. You have a DIGITAL PORTFOLIO.

You can/have•Created ways others can

communicate with you digitally.

•Create online resources for ANYTHING

•Built web-applications THAT WORK and do USEFUL things

•Take information and MANIPULATE it to produce NEW things

You remix the web

•You take things, change things, add things and publish new things - YOU are REMIXING information to suit your own goals.

You are connected•You can make videos

•You can post them to the world

•You can connect the syllabus to REAL solutions using online technology

•You use EMAIL effectively to communicate ideas, solutions as well as messages

You are virtual

•You are creating the worlds biggest (and most talked about) 3D world for students in Skoolaborate

•You know and work with students from around the world

•You have made new friends with people who you may never have KNOWN

You are special

•You can show you ‘know’ in ways that teachers often have no understanding

•You can create text, images, sound, video, in 2 and 3 dimensions.

•You are NOT limited to working using basic tools such as a poster or leaflet

You can manipulate

•Images - you can create, remix and manipulate visual information to suit a new purpose

•Video/Audio - you can remix, edit, publish and manipulate digital video and images to create new information.

What did you do to show your learning in other subjects in

07?

Word Document

Publisher (Poster)

Publisher (Leaflets)

Power Points

Speeches

Exams

You can do MORE in LESS time,

BETTER.

Fast Company•You achieved syllabus milestone

faster than any other year I have taught the subject

•You got better results than any other year I have taught the subject

•From ‘hello world’ to your last post - you SHOW what you have learned

•You are CREATIVE THINKERS

Student 2.0

•You do things that are beyond the understanding of many adults - easily

•You critically select the best tools to solve problems (higher order thinking)

•You use the internet to accomplish more than ‘searching’.

Showing Off•Your work is showcased in Second

Life as exemplary. www.jokaydia.com - the largest edu space outside of the USA

•Your work attracted the interest of Alan Lavine - Director of Learning, NMC in the USA - (www.nmc.com) - a digital eduction research company in the USA.

Showing Off

•The University of Sydney will use your work as part of it’s research in to ‘digital identity’ ...

Showing Off

•Your work was showcased in Learnscope, Australia’s major EduTech project - and your work stood up to that of students who are at TAFE!

•Your work is seen as a ‘model’ for online learners

•Your work was nominated as part of the EduBlog Awards held in London.

What next?

•What are the best tools you can choose next year to SHOW teachers your work?

•Why can’t you blog a project or homework in any subject?

•What tools can you choose?

Classroom 1.0 tools

•Textbook

•Worksheets - fill in blanks, find-a-words

•Copying off the board

•Office documents

•Writing Books

You can use MORE

Classroom 2.0 tools

•Wordpress

• FlickR

• Photobucket

•Google

•Wikis

•Wufo

• Zoho

• PBwiki

•Wikispaces

• Twitter

• VoiceThread

• YouTube

• Sketch Up

• Second Life

• Zamzar

• Blogger

• Slideshare

• del.icio.us

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