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Student 2.0… Can You Hear Me Now? Engaging 21 st Century Students. Lisa Nimz, Skokie School District 68 Jerry Michel, Lincolnwood School District 74. “You don’t have any right to read my Facebook page! That’s like invading my privacy!” - Eighth Grader, (Ironically) Anonymous.
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Student 2.0…Can You Hear Me Now?Engaging 21st Century Students Lisa Nimz, Skokie School District 68 Jerry Michel, Lincolnwood School District 74
“You don’t have any right to read my Facebook page! That’s like invading my privacy!” -Eighth Grader, (Ironically) Anonymous
“You want my status update? I'm about to hang up on you.” -Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney.com editor, when harassed (over the phone) by a relative about not being on Facebook
Unlike oral, “living” speech, Socrates saw the inflexible muteness of written language to be the doom of the dialogic process, the heart of education. -Maryanne Wolf, in Proust and the Squid
Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are the not the same as actually knowing something. -Peter Cookson, board member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
“We are not only what we read; we are how we read.” -Maryanne Wolf, author, Proust and the Squid
…that we will integrate in authentic ways as we learn from our students.
This is your brain on tech Any questions?
“Deep reading has become a chore” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged. -Nicholas Carr, author ofThe Big Switch, Rewiring the World from Edison to Google
Growing Up with Harry Potter 2001: Sorcerer’s Stone 2010: Half Blood Prince
So, we aren’t getting smarter? • The paradox of the human brain and automaticity: we build vast, intricate circuits… and simultaneously forget that we are building them
Inside Einstein’s Brain with Edison • Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration • Why myelin matters: • Deep practice + • Error recognition + • Strategies to correct = • Expertise development
If we are to learn along side our students, we must learn to use duct tape wisely
“I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors.” -James Caballero, CAIP Quarterly