Facebook, Twitter and iPhones

How Social Networking and Mobile TechnologiesImprove Learning and Prepare Students for Careers in the 21st Century

How Times are Changing

Digital Natives and ImmigrantsNo, not really. Not yet.

Web 2.0 in Education

•Presence•User-generated content•Modification•Social participation(Web 2.0 for Schools, Davies and

Merchant, 2009)

Wikis as an Example of Attitudes Toward Technology

◦Jazz in the Harlem Renaissance◦http://1000names.wikispaces.com/

FacebookIt’s not just for college students anymore

But what do they know?

Typing

Cell phones

Using the internet. ◦ We teach them how to critique it.

Photography by Martini Captures

So what do we do if they know this?Use computers in classAccess content. (Are textbooks

needed?)Send texts for general

communicationText in class (backchannels)And…

Assess with Open Book Tests

“In the confusion about learning objectives which tend to be stated rather factually…, there is always the underlying hope that the student might come away from the experience being able to do something he couldn’t do before. No one is interested in actually having the students spouting X.”

What does it mean to be educated in the 21st Century, Open EdTech 2008

What they know: Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Famous SpeechesClassic DocumentariesHow-to SkillsStudent generated content:

“Why Recycle”Documentary Film

What they know:

What Don’t They Know

TwitterNing

Horizon Report 2009

Geotagging

Smart Objects

The future is about…