Derek Wenmoth Director, eLearning Core Education Ltd derek@core-ed

1. Thinking Digitally Preparing kids for their future, not our past... Derek Wenmoth Director, eLearning Core Education Ltd derek@core-ed.net

2. The future..? 5

3. New Tools Then Now Next? • Pen • Chalkboard/Whiteboard • Banda • Gestetner • 16mm projector • Slide shows • Telephone • Fax • Library • Txting/Pxting • Blogs/Wikis • Pod/Vod-casting • Data projector • LMS • IM/SMS • Digital cameras • iMovie • Google • Peer2peer networks • Virtual reality • Wearable computers • Ubiquitous identity • Voice recognition • Agents and avitars • Visualisation • Miniaturisation • Reusable paper • Semantic web • PLEs Digital Connected Ubiquitous Analog

4. Are our schools ready? Read pages 4-6,listen to the tape segmentComplete exercises 3-6

5. Are our schools ready? Read the URL linkComplete the web questWrite your answers on the class wiki or your blog

6. What’s changed?

7. Thinking digitally

8. Thinking digitally… • Phone (obviously) • Appointments Calendar • Alarm Clock • Game device • Music player • Still Camera • Video Camera • Video player • Address Book • To Do List Reminder • Voice Recorder • Calculator • Email Tool • Text Messenger • Satellite Navigation System (ref: GPSXC.)

9. Personal Web Space Social Bookmarking Photo-sharing Collaborative web sites Sharing videos Social Networking Software

10. Teen Buzz

11. Our students are changing Attentional deployment able to shift their attention rapidly from one task to another “hypertext minds”ability to leap around and gather information from multiple sources Ability to read visual images intuitive visual communicators Inductive discovery learn better through discovery than being told Visual - spacial skills perhaps because of their expertise with games they can integrate the virtual with the physical Fast response time able to respond rapidly and expect rapid responses in return Source: Educating the Net Generation - available electronically: http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen

12. Games for learning

13. Think about it… If your students could access all the knowledge there is in the world… …and if they had access to the tools and strategies to manipulate, alter, engage with, reassemble and contribute to that knowledge… What difference would you notice in how learning occurs, and what changes would you make to the way you run your school/classroom?

14. Thankyou Derek Wenmoth Director, eLearning CORE Education Ltd derek@core-ed.net http://blog.core-ed.net/derek