Presentation Transcript
Slide 1:Talladega County 21st Century Learners Project
Middle/High School Initiative
August 4, 2008
Slide 2:Are you Ready for 21st Century Teaching and Learning? Are you ready for the typical student
of the 21st Century?
Slide 3:Born to be Wired! Understanding the Net Generation
Slide 4:Who is the Net Generation? Source: Educating the Net Generation, Diana Oblinger and James Oblinger (2005)
Slide 5:Born in or after 1982
Technology means MP3, PDA, Phones that do it all
Daily communication involves- cell phones, text messaging, IMing, Blogs, and Email
Academically diverse
Consumed by extra curricular activites
Thrive on group interactions
Tinkerers
Family Oriented
Ethically and racially diverse Millennials…
Slide 6:What they do online Source:
The Pew Internet and American Life survey of 2005 reports what teenagers are creating and consuming online.
Slide 7:Millennials Want to Learn… With technology
With one another
Online
In their own time
In their own place
Doing things that matter I-Generation
Slide 8:Digital Disconnect Schools Millennials
Slide 9:Learning Environment of the Digital Native Non Digital Native Learning Environment Digital Native or Immigrant ? Your Accent?
[Digital Immigrant Remedial Vocabulary]
Slide 10:Quotes from Writings & Presentations by Marc Prensky
"When I go to school, I have to 'power down'" -- a high school kid
"I don't want to study Rome in high school. Heck, I build Rome every day in my online game (Caesar III)."
-- a high school student
Slide 11:Our Mission
Slide 14:Letting Student Passion and Interest Rule the Curriculum Lisa Duke's students at First Flight High School in the Outer Banks in NC created this video as part of a service project in her Civics and Economics course curriculum.
Slide 15:Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Slide 16:Presentation Credits:
Alabama Best Practices Center
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, ABPC consultant