“We don’t need no thought control” (with apologies to Pink Floyd) – Preparing students for their world

not ours.

By Anne Olsen @weirdsister_Ann

Presented at Celebrate Teaching and Learning 2012

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We need a new learning space for our digital natives

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The Who?

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Net Generation

Next Generation

Nexters

Generation Y

Generation Why

Millennials

Digital Natives

Generation Now

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Echo Boomers

Google Generation

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WEB2.0 students

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Traditional style education Leave them kids alone

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Is education 1.0 ready for Web2.0 students?– John Thompson

http://ecavey.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/digital-natives-vs-digital-immigrants/

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Digital Natives are native speakers of technology, fluent in the digital language of computers, video games and the internet.

Digital Immigrants have adopted many aspects of technology, but we retain an ‘accent’ because we still have one foot in the past.

– Marc Prensky (2005:8)

Listening to the Natives is better than Waiting for the Barbarians.

http://www.shiftisgood.com/harrison-kohn-relaunches-as-shift

http://chriswondra.com/2007/12/17/paradigm-shift-ahead-learning-just-got-heroic/

… using technologies that have not been invented yet in order to solve problems we

don’t even know are problems yet - Shift happens 2012

This is especially true for education.

Once upon a time the book revolutionised

education… now?

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• Innovations in communication technology cause cultural change

• Changes in modes of communication shape human life

• We shape our tools and they in turn shape us– Couros, 2003: 12

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Our students are no longer little versions of us…

We need to look beyond or 20th century knowledge or training to guide them…

http://decidingedge.com/technology/digital-revolution/

Break out the comfort zoneInto THE ZONE

http://inblurbs.com/blog/category/content-creation-strategy/

Consumers vs creators

http://www.saffroninteractive.com/solutions/blended-learning

LECTURER IN A BLENDER

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A world without technology?

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Blended learning in action

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Todays' students are no longer the people our education system was designed to teach

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Advantage us!

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Not all students are able to solely

use technology for learning

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and learning autonomy

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Facilitate self-directed,

personalised learning

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It’s too easy to just randomly throw technology at students

http://blog.aeseducation.com/blended-learning/

Edu1.0 meets Web2.0

http://mar9arita.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/this-century-new-networks/

Generation M:Multitaskersin theory

Generation M:Multitaskersin practice

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http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/09/back-to-school-best-quotes-about-education-and-school-days/teaching-today-amazing-7-3/

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http://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/21c-teachers-their-skills-literacies-and-fluencies/

- Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

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Lets plug into our students

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Welcome to their world

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