I linked all your web portfolios to our class website. During this semester, try to keep visiting others' portfolios and get more ideas on yours!
How do you solve or find the answer to the following questions?
You need a phone number for the main office of your auto insurance company.
You need directions to the home of your cousin's best friend.
You want to know how to convert miles to kilometers.
You want to know what time
Depending on your answer you could be a Digital Native (DN)or Digital Immigrant (DI).
Marc Prensky coined those terms. Digital Natives are the today's K-12 students. They are used to computers, video games, cell phones, DVD players, & electronic music players. Just the opposite of that are Digital Immigrants. They are characterized by people who have adopted digital technology (like me!).
DI typically use technology in a much different way than DN. Why, you say, is this important? Well, you all will be going out to the K-12 setting working with DN. DI typically have a different mindset than DN.
Take me, for example, I am a typical DI that has adapted really well to DN. I say that because I use the Internet and the computer in many ways that DN do. However, I still have some ways of doing things that are foreign to DN.
Marc Prensky discusses this generation in great detail:
If you were born after 1982 - you are a part of this generation - you are a digital native. Most of your teachers were digital immigrants. What does that mean for education? For understanding learning styles and teaching strategies? Where does instructional technology fit?
Take a look at the Mindset List put out each year by Beloit College. Where do you fall?
With the growing number of DN it is becoming more and more evident that educators change the manner in which we disseminate information. Chalkboard or Whiteboard or SmartBoard? Lecture or PowerPoint presentation? Boardgames or Computer games?
Do you want to Learn new stuff? or Learn new ways to do old stuff?
I challenge you - as you create activities this semester - to think from the perspective of a Digital Native (if you are not one) when you are creating your activities.
Everybody has an index card. Please write down your imagination about:
What the classroom in your future teaching will look like? What the students in it will look like?
Digital Learners PPT
The Digital Learners presentation can be downloaded here. If you right click on the link you can save the presentation to your computer.Links from the presentation:
Georgia Learning Connections
Georgia Performance Standards
National Educational Technology Standards
Contiue working on your web portfolio
Good example for personalize your web-based portfolio
Courtney William
Rachel Tuck
Leanna Destephano
Handouts of Google Pages Creator (Online)
1. Google Page Creator Help
2. Create Your Home Page With Google Page Creator
Next class we will briefly talk about the Teaching and Learning Puzzles.
Before this, do you know what's your learning style?
How do educators know how to meet the needs of the specific learners with which they are working? Are their different types of learners? Does everyone understand subject matter in the same way? How can teachers identify the different types of learners in their classrooms? Take this online quiz to determine your learning style. Find two other classmates who have similar learning styles. Find one learning/study habit that you have in common and be ready to share it with the class.Here are more resources on learning styles.
Learning Styles and Strategies
Learning Styles Explained
Learning Styles Chart
Learning Styles Self-Assessment
Multiple Intelligence Inventory
5 comments:
I think the Digital Immigrants are going to have to do most of the work. Not only is it hard to change someone who has grown up using computers and technology, but using this is also more time efficient. It is a lot easier to multi-task and get many things done. Students are learning to be more independent in their studies and research takes less time. If Digital Immigrants try to update their teaching methods, I think that they will find it easier to be more creative and to change and vary their curriculum more often. Computers are appealing to people, and there are always updates to enhance a certain program. Yes, the Digital Immigrants are going to have to do most of the work, but Digital Natives are going to have to be patient, because they have many more years of experience!
I agree that Digital Immigrants need to change their styles of teaching to reach the needs of Digital Natives but the natives need to understand that sometimes it isn't as simple to the Immigrants as it is to them. I definitley multitask like the article says and always do my homework and studying with music or the tv in the background and my mom has never understood and she is definitley a Digital Immigrant who never uses computers unless me, my brother or dad are helping her.
I agree as well. Digital immigrants are going to have to change in order to keep up with the times. I also agree that the Digital natives need to be patient as the immigrants try and grasp the new concepts common in today's society. For instance I'm still trying to teach older members in my family how to open and then respond to a text message! Something so simple to me and my peers isn't so simple for out parents and there generation.
I think it's all relative. I am a Digital Native, but I know people my age who don't know a lot about computers and older people who do know. I definitely agree that immigrants are going to have to step up to the plate though because things are always going to be easier and more efficient with technology. I do think though that while immigrants are going to have to learn these things that the natives will have to be patient - but, if everyone works together it shouldn't make much difference no matter what age or technological status we are.
I agree with the above 3 posts. I think one of the biggest issues with the DN generation is their (our) unwillingness to be patient with the DI generation. It is important to help the DIs learn what the DN already know so they can teach the younger generations to become better DN than the generation before them are.
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