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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