Learners

Learners

1. Digital Natives

   • The conection how YOUNG PEOPLE are learning in general in a DIGITAL AGE
   • The internet is changing the way that children and college students gather and process
     • Information in all aspects of their lives
       • GOOGLE
       • FACEBOOK
       • WIKIPEDIA
       • MY SPACE
   • Concerns and disadventages
     • - Kids not reading books cover to cover
     • - The seeping into young people's brains
     • - Kids developing few analytical skills along the way
     • - Multitask , Students connected to the internet at all times
     • - Students not paying enough attention to the task
     • multiasking, is bad when students are trying to learn new things or doing something that requires a lot of attention
     • Copy and paste
   • Adventages
     • - Absorbing news all day long on various websites
       • comedy programs
       • unconvetional sources
     • - interacting with information in constructive ways
     • - Access much more information about a topic they are interested in
     • -Gather information through a multistep process that involves grazing a " deep dive" and a "feedback loop"
     • -Absorb a headline or a bite more perhaps a paragragh about any given story
     • -The information is
       • valuable
       • timely
       • revelant
       • easy to process
   • Things to improve
     • 1. Technologies can support our pedagogicals goals
     • 2. We need determinate what our goals are
       • 3. We figure out how technology can help us and our kids
         • 4. The curriculum should be taught without screen or Net connections
           • 5. exchanging views and looking in depth at a topic ,questioning and exploring issues in a face to face and real life
     • 6. Programs where students are doing applied work ,research and writing , arts and music an problem solving to better inegration
     • 7. To encourage team-based learning
     • 8. We should apply that learning to our efforts to rethink curricula