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Marc [email protected]
© 2011 Marc Prensky© 2011 Marc Prensky
NYC-DOE_MOET-PRINCIPALS
TEACHING DIGITAL NATIVES:PARTNERING FOR REAL LEARNING
March 23, 2011New York, NY
My first message
is that
They Are NOT for you
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They are FOR THE KIDS!
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My second message
is that
There are ways of bothpreserving the past
andmoving to the future
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Nouns(Tools)
Powerpoint
Verbs(Skills)
Presenting
Change rapidlyStay the same
EmailCommunicating
WikipediaLearning
Flash
Texting
You Tube????
Verbs vs. Nouns
• Being rigorous
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VERBS
Stay the same
• Creating Emotion
• Communicating
• Presenting logically
• Thinking critically
• Understanding Context
• Persuading
AnalyzingCalculatingCollaboratingCombiningCommunicatingComparingCompetingConnectingCooperatingCreatingDebatingDeciding Estimating
PredictingPresentingQuestioning, Socratic (i.e. thought-provoking)
ReflectingSearching / FindingSharingSimulatingThinking criticallyThinking logicallyTryingVerifyingWriting
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Ethical QuestioningEvaluatingExperimentingExploringImitatingInnovatingLeadingListeningNegotiatingNetworkingObservingPracticing
VERBS
• BlackboardsElectronic Boards
NOUNS
Change
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• Clickersmobile phones
• LaptopsNetbooks
• OverheadsPPTFlash
• Books Videos
• Mobile PhonesiPhones
• FaceBookTwitter?
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What are the key verbs (skills)
we want our students to learn, practice and
master?
We must ask:
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“Am I using the appropriate / best / latest
nouns for the verbs (skills)
I am teaching?”
We must ask:
and we need to
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be ready andbe flexible enough
to move to new nouns as they appear
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Cell Phone
www
Apps
4.0 B users *
1.5 B users
1 B views / day
1 B tweets/yr
1 B downloads
50 yrs
20 yrs
6 yrs
3 yrs
1 yr
You Tube 1 B views / day5 yrs
Texting 8 B m/day15 yrs
Google 3 B srchs/day10 yrs
Accelerated Speed of Adoption(race to the billions)
* Rough approximations. Source: Wikipedia
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My third message
is about
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How shouldteachers use
technology tools?
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“A lot of teachers think they make a
PowerPoint and they’re so awesome!”
-- a (female) high school junior
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“But it’s just like writing on the blackboard!”
-- a (female) high school junior
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(The stress-reducing bit)
“THE PRENSKY APOSTASY”
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It’s important that teachers
DON’T WASTE THEIR TIMELearning to Create With New Tools,
(unless they want to)
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because…
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The students can do that! (and they want to)
“Don’t try to keep up with the technology
-- you can’t”
– A 15 year old girl
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“You’ll only look stupid.”
– A 15 year old girl
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Teachers should never use the technology
FOR their students!
RULE #1
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3D PRINTER
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My fourth(and most important)
message
is
STUDENT PASSIONS
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What fuel best motivates today’s
kids to learn?
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SportsSpace
Dance
Coins History
Singing
Writing
Nature
Music
Medicine People
The Environment
Programming
Motorcycles
AnimalsBusiness
The Internet
“Learningcomes from
passion,not discipline”
– —Nicholas Negroponte
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Do our teachersknow
their students’ passions?
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Not enough!
What percent of teachers know the passion of each of their
students?
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Most teachers would say
less than 20 percent
What percent of students think all their teachers know their
passion?
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Almost none
What percent of students WANT their teachers to know
their passion?
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All of them
We need to
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EncouragePASSION-BASED
LEARNING
If tomorrowevery teacher
askedevery kid
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“What are youpassionate
about?”
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And wrote it down and acted on it
(to connect with students and individualize instruction)
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ALL EDUCATIONwould be
light yearsahead
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USING YOUR iPADS
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Suggestions from MP
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1. Find 2 partners: a student, a peer put their numbers on your speed dial2. Take iPad to all classrooms3. Make sure every kid gets time to use it & connect it with their passion4. Solicit suggestions for class uses5. Award time for best ideas
Suggestions from You
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1. Weather2. Nutrition3. View stars during the day using Star Walk app4. Virtual manipulatives5. Compiling information & creating6. All books