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Classroom Solutions for Digital Students

Classroom Solutions for Digital Students. Scott Kinney Director, Discovery Educator Network. Classroom Solutions for Digital Students. Scott Kinney National Director, Discovery Educator Network. 173 1.5B. A bit of trivia. Which age group has the highest percentage of its members online?.

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Classroom Solutions for Digital Students

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  1. Classroom Solutions for Digital Students Scott KinneyDirector, Discovery Educator Network

  2. Classroom Solutions for Digital Students Scott KinneyNational Director, Discovery Educator Network 173 1.5B

  3. A bit of trivia...

  4. Which age group has the highest percentage of its members online? • 12-17 • 25-29 • 30-34 • 40-44

  5. What percentage of public school students are considered to be part of a racial or ethnic minority group? • 13% • 18% • 26% • 43%

  6. One of the fastest growing websites in the world and has visitors watching over 100 million videos per day? • Google • YouTube • Yahoo • MySpace

  7. If registered users of this website were a country, it would be larger than Germany, France and the United Kingdom. • Google • YouTube • Yahoo • MySpace

  8. What is the percentage of students entering school that speak a language other than English? • 5% • 10% • 20% • 40%

  9. How can we support these trends?

  10. Students and Media • Young people (8-18) today, spend an average of 6 ½ hours a day with media • 4 hours a day watching TV • 2 ¼ hours with parents • 1 ¾ listening to music • 1 ½ doing physical activity • Over an hour on the computer • Under an hour doing homework • They are exposed to the equivalent of 8 ½ hours of media a day • 57% of teenagers online create content. (approximately 2 million teens) Source: A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. March 2005 Source: AOL/DMS “Teen Wired” and Pew Internet & American Life Project.

  11. As They Get Older • What’s “in” on Campus • Spring 2005 • Drinking beer • Drinking other alcohol • Spring 2006 • Drinking beer iPods • Drinking beer tied with Facebook.com • Drinking other alcohol • Text messaging Source: USA Today. June 8, 2006

  12. Meet Melanie Photograph: Shark. Discovery Communications, Inc.. 2005. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  13. Meet Melanie Video: La guía máxima: Tiburones. Discovery Channel School. 2001. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  14. …but not just what we think What do we know about integrating media?

  15. Scientifically Proven • Virginia Evaluation 2002This independent evaluation examined third and eighth grades students in two areas of study -- science and social studies. Improvement among experimental group students who received instruction aided by unitedstreaming showed a 12.6% average increase in achievement over control group students. • Los Angeles Evaluation 2004This evaluation, conducted in the Los Angeles Unified School District, examined mathematics performance among 6th and 8th grade students. Students who received instruction aided by unitedstreaming showed a 3% to 5% average increase in achievement in math scores over the control group.

  16. Unparallel Access to Media

  17. Meet My Little Girl Name Kayla Age 3 1/2 About Kayla Kayla is three and is no longer satisfied with simply watching Elmo and Dora. Instead, she wants to interact with them, answer questions and guide them in their journey.

  18. Tools to Interact

  19. Tools to Interact

  20. …the next step • create!

  21. …a student example

  22. but all these resources can lead to a problem…

  23. …but before we can provide content

  24. We Must Know Our Students “When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won't. So two thirds of the children are wasting their time.” - Lilian Katz as quoted in Teaching Young Children (1993)

  25. Here’s what we know… the way students interact with media is evolving classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse

  26. Diversity brings educational challenges, but also great opportunity!

  27. How People Learn A research-based synthesis consisting of 30 years of educational research indicates: • participation in social practice is a fundamental form of learning • learning is increased by a diversity of cultural experience and community participation Brown, Ann L, Cocking, Rodney R & Bransford , John D. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington: National Academies Press, 2000.

  28. Social Practice In Action a2+b2=c2 Pythagorean theorem Vincent van Gogh H2O2 Gordon Meade Hydrogen Peroxide

  29. …so how do we support content development in the first language

  30. Meet Melanie Photograph: Shark. Discovery Communications, Inc.. 2005. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  31. Meet Melanie Video: La guía máxima: Tiburones. Discovery Channel School. 2001. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  32. Meet Melanie Video: Ultimate Guide, The: Sharks. Discovery Channel School. 1998. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  33. Meet Melanie Video: Ultimate Guide, The: Sharks. Discovery Channel School. 1998. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  34. Going back to what we know… the way students interact with media is evolving classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse

  35. “We can no longer teach as we learned. We must combine the best of the old with the best of the new and plunge forward to meet the increasing demands of an ever-changing technological environment.” Linda Wells, Fifth Grade Teacher Cambridge Elementary School San Antonio, Texas

  36. Classroom Solutions for Digital Students Scott KinneyDirector, Discovery Educator Network

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