Engaging_Digital_Native

=Engaging the Digital Native = Monday Sessions 1 & 3 //Dave Mendell// Mike Baker



=Essential Questions -=


 * - What is a Digital Native?

- How do we connect digital learners with the teaching of traditional subjects?

- As a teacher, what do you wish your kids did better /more of /could do?

- How can technology help?**


 * //My Goal... is to get you thinking... //**

=Digital Natives Defined -=

"Today’s kids crave tools that facilitate networking. As nimble multi- taskers, kids use hyperlinks/text and instantaneous random access seamlessly, as they do their homework, talk on the phone, listen to music, download movies, surf the Web, while maintaining multiple simultaneous conversations on a chat line. Using technology transparently, without marveling at it, or wondering about how it works, today’s generation have grown up speaking digital - this is their native language - and they speak it fluently; they are digital natives." ( Prensky, 2001a, 2001b; Monitor Today 2004; Stepp 2004).

Source - The InfoSavvy Group - [|http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Articles_files/ndl.pdf]

Source: [|www.apple.com/au/education/digitalkids/disconnect/landscape.html] ||
 * **The differences between digital native learners and digital immigrant teachers.**
 * = **Digital Native Learners** ||= **Digital Immigrant Teachers** ||
 *  Prefer receiving information quickly from multiple multimedia sources.  ||  Prefer slow and controlled release of information from limited sources.   ||
 *  Prefer parallel processing and multitasking.  ||  Prefer singular processing and single or limited tasking.   ||
 *  Prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text.  ||  Prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.   ||
 *  Prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia information.  ||  Prefer to provide information linearly, logically and sequentially.   ||
 *  Prefer to interact/network simultaneously with many others.  ||  Prefer students to work independently rather than network and interact.   ||
 *  Prefer to learn “just-in-time.”  ||  Prefer to teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam).   ||
 *  Prefer instant gratification and instant rewards.  ||  Prefer deferred gratification and deferred rewards.   ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.  || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests .   ||

=Content Area Ideas and Examples -=

I can't tell you how to teach, but hopefully my ideas will get you thinking...

**Writing -**
Connor's PPT poem in WMV format: media type="file" key="a long day.wmv"
 * PowerPoint Poems** - Poetry fits very well with Powerpoint... one thought per slide...


 * Photostory / Digital Storytelling -**

- As a follow-up to our field trip, I showed this video as a writing prompt.
 * __Maple Sugaring Field Trip__** - media type="file" key="Tyler Video - small version.wmv"

__**Reading** -__
[|Reading Response Blog]- This is a weekly assignment for my students. Feel free to read my directions page on the blog... - I use a local blog server but this can easily be done using [|edublogs] or another service.

Mr. Henshaw Journals**-** - This was a great project which engaged all students with the book __Dear Mr. Henshaw__ by Beverly Cleary. - Follow the links and you'll note that we used a combination of class and student wikis for this project. = = [|Kerpoof] - This is a great kid-friendly site! The Movie projects are intuitive and a good predecessor to teaching kids to work in Movie Maker or iMovie
 * [[image:http://www.kerpoof.com/cb/images/cb/teachers/educational_logo.png width="145" height="105" link="http://www.kerpoof.com/"]] ||
 * Kerpoof ||

- [|Check out my Kerpoof movie!]

__How do you teach math?__
[|SMART Notebook] - The software is downloadable and can be used effectively even without a SMARTboard!

Here is a copy of the sample I showed in my presentation:

[|Web Sudoku]

__How do you teach Social Studies?__
To collaborate on a study of Colonial Pennsylvania, students used webs created in bubbl ([|www.bubbl.us]) then embedded them into our wikis. Note - Use the controls in each embedded window to shrink the web so you can see the whole thing...


 * = **My Template for each Chapter**

media type="custom" key="962535" ||= **A completed web**

media type="custom" key="962537" ||

Presentation Slides -
- Below is the slideshow from my presentation... essentially the same info with some of my research... media type="custom" key="966447"

__**Dave <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">’ **__ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">__**s Websites, Wikis and other Resources**__  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">

Email - dmendell [at] wssd.org <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Wiki <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">– <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> [|www.mendell.wikispaces.com] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Student Wiki <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">– <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> [|www.mendellstudentwikis.wikispaces.com] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Class Blog <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">– <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> [|http://davemendell.edublogs.org/] Reading Response Blog - __[|http://srsteachers.org/blogs/dmendell/]__ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Bubbl <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">–  [|http://www.bubbl.us] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> Kerpoof <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">– <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">  __ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">[|www.kerpoof.com] __ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Wikispaces <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">–  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">  http://www.wikispaces.com Edublogs <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">– <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">  [|http://www.edublogs.org] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">SMARTNotebook - [|http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Board+software/default.]<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"> Web Sudoku - <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">[|http://www.websudoku.com] CBox - http://www.cbox.ws/
 * __Additional__** **Resources**


 * InfoSavvy Group** __-__ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">[|http://web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Handouts.htm]