Revenge of the Digital Immigrants
by Langwitches ~ January 25th, 2008. Filed under: Conferences, Culture, Technology.
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Presented by Hall Davidson
The Revenge of the Digital Immigrants: Revise Teaching with Media Technology
What veteran teachers suspected the research has proved: 21st Century students are different. They have different attention spans, test much higher on IQ tests, and reach sophistication earlier with new social skills. The modern media environment indelible effects developing minds. Psychologists call it a �new brain.� The fantastic thing is we can teach this �new brain� more effectively, more efficiently, and more engagingly. Because we have the technology! Media has evolved and education must evolve to match. Learn from the real world and see how media providers have adapted to deliver accountable information. Then explore applications to your school.
Kids’ brains are different, we should work with them. Brains deal with images (emotion, instinct, impulses) differently than with text. The way your students think has changed. If you watch too much TV while you are between 5-7years old your attention span changes when you are between 13-15.
Teachers tend to teach the way we were taught. It does not work anymore. We have to develop new ways to teach this kind of “new” brain. The new brain can get the new information a lot quicker than the old brain. We just have to feed them in a different way. Advertising industry has realized that. Commercial times have changed from 60-30-15 seconds.
Radio Commercials – 5 seconds ads (applets) & 2 seconds (blinks).
We have the technology to build short lessons (imovie or windows moviemaker) Use more short interval teaching.
Each generation is shaped by its environment.
Ex. Comparison of two doctor TV shows. Dr. Kildare and House.
Kids are tool users. We need to use that ability. Use green screen and video to have kids create. Tools: Microsoft Photostory. We need to get our students to use these tools. They NEED that kind of “stuff”.
We need to rethink how we use media.
Building with Google SketchUp
Teach the old brain and reach the new brain.
Watch this presentation on Ustream. Thank you to Colemama
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