How Would YOU Respond to This? I'm facilitating an online class regarding "21st Century Teaching and Learning - The Need For Change" One of the reading assignments was to read this article by Marc Prensky, and comment: Below is the comment from one of the teachers. I've received his permission to post this here. As you can see, it's a very thoughful response to the article. I'm wondering how YOU would respond to him. ---Actually, this article seemed to contain everything wrong with educational "research" and "thought". 1. 2. 3. I should note that according to the activity that goes with this course, I am a pure "digital native". This article confuses the "technologically rich" muddle most of us find ourselves it with higher level thinking, and the two are NOT the same. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Cen.
The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st century and beyond. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below.
The graphic represents both 21st century student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century learning support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom). While the graphic represents each element distinctly for descriptive purposes, P21 views all the components as fully interconnected in the process of 21st century teaching and learning. 21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems 21st Century Student Outcomes 1. 2. 3. 4. 21st Century Support Systems 1. 21st Century Standards 2. The Eye Generation Prefers Not to Read All About It - washington. The breaking point for Perry Schwartz comes on Day 5 of the American Film Institute's three-week Summer Movie Production Workshop. Schwartz, a professor of theater and film at Montgomery College in Takoma Park and director of the AFI film course, is helping students envision the movie they are making together.
They sit in folding chairs in the college's Black Box Theatre and speak in strictly visual terms, citing specific actors and moments in cinema. "He's more like Jack Black. " "That happens in 'Space Jam'! " Of the 10 students, one is 40 years old; the rest are college age or younger. Schwartz is describing how the two main characters in the student film will sit on a couch, simultaneously reach for popcorn and inadvertently touch hands, when Kit Reiner of Silver Spring and Max Simon of Potomac -- both 18 -- cry out, "Just like in 'Lady and the Tramp'! " And Schwartz could take it no more. Really? To most of the workshop students, life has become totally visual. Retour sur les journées numériques de l'université Paris Descart. Les 17 et 18 mai 2010 l'université Paris Descartes organisait les journées numériques. Deux jours pour associer de nombreux conférenciers, intervenants et projets à une réflexion collective sur l'enseignement à l'ère digitale.
Avec l'aide précieuse de l'équipe technique de l'université et de Sophie Mahéo, organisatrice, la biblio a mis en place à Paris un espace de réalité mixte appelé "le carré des blogueurs". Objectif : partager l'expérience d'enseignants porteurs de projets utilisant les mondes virtuels dans le cadre de processus d'enseignement. L'équipe opérationnelle était venue en force avec Coulaut Menges et Betty Renoir à pied d'oeuvre dès la veille, et votre serviteur arrivant le 18 mai au matin afin de mettre avec eux la dernière main au dispositif technique.
Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir mettre en place, grâce au très bon réseau wifi et filaire de l'université et à leur infrastructure (serveur de flux vidéo, caméra DV et écran), un espace fonctionnel. Au final : Grazing for Digital Natives ‽ digitalnatives. Presentations Learning in the 21st Century Teaching in the 21st Century Learning 2.0 - Harnessing the Learning Potential of Web 2.0 Scroll down to access support resources for this workshop. Web 2.0 Applications What is Web 2.0? Check out the free Atomic Learning tutorials to uncover how the Internet has evolved.
Social Bookmarking Click here to access my Web 2.0 in Education workshop page Social Networking / Affinity Networking Wikis Click here to access my Wikis in Education workshop page Blogs Click here to access my Blogging in Education workshop page Podcasting Click here to access my Podcasting in Education workshop page Synchronous Editing Applications Click here to visit my Google Tools for the Classroom workshop page Concept Mapping Syndication Feed Aggregators Click here to access my RSS in Education workshop page Video Editing and Sharing Image Editing and Sharing Misc.
Digital Storytelling with Web 2.0 Click here to access my digital storytelling workshop page Slideshow / Presentation Tools Research: Digital Nativism. Prensky's Digital Nativism With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. (Prensky's work) In a rather shallow piece lacking in evidence or data, Prensky offers the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" to set up a generational divide.
His proposition is simple-minded. He paints digital experience as wonderful and old ways as worthless. He lumps people together by nothing more than age and exposure, spending little time on differentiating or understanding. He offers learning with video games as a digital Nirvana that should replace forms of learning that he claims are now outmoded. Prensky's Brave New World of Video Game Learning It is amusing to note Prensky's unbridled enthusiasm for learning via video games. Prensky Ignores Serious Studies of the Young and Important Data Light users Medium users Heavy users Prensky's Legacy Learning vs.