Digital+Learning

Reactions to the videos on digital learning.

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 * __Video 1: Did you know? 4.0__**
 * a lot more use of technology today then there were in the past
 * so many people have an advantage when using their cell phones, especially for internet usage
 * texting- children are so at ease with their cell phone
 * administrators have to make sure that a lot of the issues with students today are going on inappropriate websites
 * at our school, we have certain websites blocked to prohibit the use from students
 * students who try and text and use their phones to film during class

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 * __Video 2: Bushwise__**
 * discusses technology in the classroom
 * students learning in different paces
 * adaptive software
 * teaching for different needs for individual students
 * unfair for students who live in low-income areas who do not have the choice and have to attend the low performing schools
 * textbooks going away due to technology
 * having online teacher and then the classroom teachers assist in what they learn


 * __Article 1: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky__**
 * our students have changed drastically
 * discontinuity has taken place
 * singularity is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology
 * college grads spend: 5,000 hours reading; 10,000 hours playing video games; 20,000 hours watching TV
 * students thinking patterns have changed

__Digital Natives__ are the new students of today
 * they are referred as N-[for Net]-gen or D-[for digital]-gen
 * used to receiving information really fast
 * parallel process and multi-task
 * prefer graphics
 * networked
 * thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards
 * games

__Digital Immigrants__ were not born into the digital world, but they are adapting and learning the new technology
 * teach slowly, step-by-step, one thing at a time, individually, and seriously

__Methodology__
 * today's teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students
 * going faster
 * less step-by-step
 * more random access

__Two types of Content__ 1. __Legacy__ is all of our traditional curriculum 2. __Future__ is digital and technology
 * includes reading, writing, arithmetic, logical thinking, understanding the wrtitings and ideas of the past
 * extremely interesting to today's students
 * we need to teach both types of content
 * the first involves a major translation and change of methodology
 * the second involves all that PLUS new content and thinking
 * adapt materials to the language of Digital Natives
 * rethinking needs to be applied to all subjects at all levels
 * need to invent Digital native methodologies using our students to guide us

**1. The Instant Communications Revolution- **linking every person through networks **2. The Swarm Revolution- **using non-computer silicon chips in everything we use (just like we automatically use electricity and barcodes today.) **3. The Convergence Revolution- **combining the four revolutions: the Quantum Revolution, the Computer Revolution, the Internet Revolution and the Biomolecular Revolution. **4. The Learning Revolution- **combinging our brain knowledge with technology to learn things faster and effectively **5. The Creative Revolution- **the ability to create new futures, and to analyze old problems in new ways
 * __Article 2: Five Keys to unlock the 21st century__**
 * __The Five Keys__**
 * Every successful corporation is rethinking its complete business model at least every four years.
 * Every country or state is doing the same, but over a longer timespan.

__**The 11 steps to transform education **__

**1. Instant communications **  **2. Total system redesign **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">storing the information and making it available, in any language and to anyone instantly
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Every successful major company in the world is redesigning its total business model at least every four or five years.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. Globalization **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">most commerce is as unrestricted as the Internet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">the instant transfer of money around the globe

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">4. Mass customization **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">5. Small is smart **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">individuals configuring the components of the systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Dell Computers now achieves sales of around $US40 million ($NZ100million) A DAY on the Internet alone.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">size does not matter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">you do not need to be a giant firm or a big country to lead the world.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Finland are four small countries whose living standards have soared by developing leadership in niches of global excellence.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the republic of Ireland, has surpasses America in the past year being the world’s biggest software exporter

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">6. Big is beautiful, too ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">7. Students as teachers **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Giant companies and corporations are also in the midst of major transformation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cisco Communications, specialist in the core systems of the Internet, is a model example. Its current sales on the Internet: $US44 million a day.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">its big breakthrough is much more simple: 90 percent of its hi-tech customer queries are answered online by other customers in similar fields. Its customers become Cisco’s biggest teachers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The digital revolution where students know more than their teachers or parents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">In Finland, for example, the Government employed 5000 of the country’s brightest students to teach their teachers how to use computers and the Internet.Almost
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">100 years ago, Maria Montessori provided a stimulating, hands-on environment, appealing to all the senses, and even very young children will “explode” into self-directed learning.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">8. Brain-research **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">9. DNA breakthroughs ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">10. Convergence **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Scientists have learned more about the human brain in the past ten years than in the rest of recorded history.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">we can each keep on building brain cell-connections throughout life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">personal learning, thinking and working style
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">students fail at school because their learning style differs from their schools’ teaching style.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">it is possible to determine the way each students learns best and cater to that individual style.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the race to map the human genome and discover, in tiny detail, the secret of life on earth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the achievement of cracking <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the human genetic code by 2005 has been reached
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">reveal secrets of both health and disease, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">promising new treatments for virtually every illness that afflicts us
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">make antibiotics and other modern drugs seem prehistoric
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">extend life expectancy and the quality of life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the most important newcomer to the convergence of much other research and many technologies.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">the integration and convergence of print, Internet, cable television, satellite, cellphone, wireless and movie empires.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">In China, for instance, fewer than 3 percent of its 1.3 billion population have access to on-line telephones. But more than 60 percent regularly watch television.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">voice-activated computer programs and rapidly-improving voice-activated language-translation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">converging technologies have the power to transform education.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">11. Vision **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">﻿many companies have transformed the world based on their vision
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">instant communication allows for faster breakthroughs