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Understanding The Digital Native

Understanding The Digital Native. Or how to understand your students and their expectations of technology in the classroom. What happened to School??. Our students have changed drastically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

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Understanding The Digital Native

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  1. Understanding The Digital Native Or how to understand your students and their expectations of technology in the classroom

  2. What happened to School?? Our students have changed drastically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

  3. Technology has driven a fundamental shift in the way students learn and process information. • We are no longer primarily an agrarian or manufacturing society. • Our students speak a digital language that we as adults are not native to, having arrived (most of us) later to the trend. • This makes most of us teachers “Digital Immigrants”, trying to communicate with kids who don’t relate to “dial a telephone”, “type a letter”, or “play a record”.

  4. What today’s students do online: Source: TBWA/Chiat/Day Research, 2000

  5. Digital Natives • They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. • They respond to rapidly transmitted sights and sounds.

  6. Today's average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). • They are multi-taskers, adept at using technology to do several things at once.

  7. Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives. • They are Hypercommunicators

  8. *Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, February 2003

  9. Our Goal: reach today’s students with four Web 2.0 applications: • Blogging • Wikispaces • E-Mail • Google Applications

  10. Resources • TBWA/Chiat/Day Research, 2000 • Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, February 2003 • http://www.Ning.com • Classroom 2.0 & School 2.0 Social Networking groups    

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