Have you been paying Attention?
How do your students learned?
Are they?
Interpersonal,
Logical
Spatial,
Intrapersonal,
Musical
Linguistic,
Naturalist
Or Bodily-Kinisthetic Learners?
The Survey Results of Asian Youths found that….
•90% owned Cellphones
•Spent at least 3 hours talking on CP
•Average almost 1 hour playing VDO games daily
•Thais spent more than 1 hour playing games!!
In U.S.A today..
•Average College graduates have Spent:
•Over 10,000 hours playing VDO games
•Over 10,000 hours talking on Cellphones
•And roughly 20,000 hours watching TV.
Children and teens spend 2.75 hours a week using home computers.
•70% of 4-6 year-olds have used a computer.
•In any given day,68% of children under two will use a screen media,for an average of just over 2 hours(2:05)
•Why???
“Richness”,
How much richness your curriculum provide?
Do your students….
Remember?
Understand?
Apply
Analyze,
Evaluate
And Create?
What do your students Create?
“These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be create,consume,remix,and share material with each other”
Are you reaching your students?
“We have learned to ‘play school’.We study the right facts the night before the test so we acieve a passing grade and thus become a successful student.”
“It’s not attention deficit-I am just not listening!”
Are you engaging them?
“When I go to school,I have to ‘power down.’.
One researcher claims that,on average students in class only get to ask a question once….
Every 10 hours!
Why don’t we pause for the next 10 hours to see how that feel?
Do any of your students use Google?
Did you know that there are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month?
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?(Before Google)
Why not use the technology that our students love to create more effectively?
Why not use the technology that our students love to engage more effectively?
Why not use the technology that our students love to teach more effectively?
Did you know that our Digital Learners have sent and received over 200,000 emails or IM..
Did you know that our Digital Learners have sent and received over 200,000 emails or IM..
By the time they graduate from college!
We accused them not reading (as much as our own generations??)
But 200,000 written messages sure seems like a lot of time spent with the 3 R’s!
Rigor,Relevance.& Relationships
How are you using the new WWW to teach your students?
WWW:WhateverWheneverWherever
Consider theses way to use Internet in teaching…
Blogs WikisPodcastsOnline CollaborationOnline teachingOnline LearningWeb CamGPSGeocatching GamesGIS
Google EarthWebQuestsE-portfoliosVirtual ManipulativesVirtual Pen-PalsVirtual ToursWritingReadingReflection
And those evil cellphones?
Did you know that over 1.5 billion,all over the world,are walking around with powerful computers in their pockets and purses?
“When you loose your Mobile,you loose part of your brain.”
“Phones have become an interestingly enabling tool.Invented to connect us all together,it has become something much more…”
Since your students already know how to use these technology,why aren’t you using it to teach?
Think of the ways you can use cellphones to teach……..
Language
Poetry
Literature
Public Speaking
History
Math
Story Telling
Geography
Writing
Text Messaging(SMS) alone could be used for……
Pop quizzs
Student Polls
Spelling Bees
Math Experiments
Science Experiments
Book Reports
Book Reports
Peer tutoring
Class presentations
Imagine giving your class this assignment:
“Class,you’ve got 10 minutes to receive a text message from anyone outside of this school…”
Please find out:
•What they had for breakfast
•What the weather is like where they are
•The one thing they last purchased
Bonus point will be given for messages received from people outside Thailand
Using languages other than English.
Talk about acquring useful data!
This data could then be used in nearly any class
To teach a wide variety of skills:
To teach a wide variety of skills:
Graphic Data
Food Preparation
Predicting Economic Trends
Cellphones to teach?
Absolutely
Did you know….
Only 28% of 12th grade high school students believe that school work is……
Meaningful
21% believe that their courses are interesting….
And a mere 39% believe that school work will have any bearing on their success in later life
And these are the opinions of students that will actually graduate!
How do the nearly 50% of students that don’t graduate feel about the schools they once attended?
ENGAGE them,don’t ENRAGE them!
Perhaps they wouldn’t hate school if they could use iPods in class
There are nearly 90,000,000 iPods in USA
iPod+Podcasting=Anytime Learning
Did you know that there are over 90,000 unique video and audio podcasts currently being served to over 1.6 million subscribers?
If you can’t reach your students by speaking directly to them….
Teach them via Podcast!
Why not,where there are already thounsands available for you to use….
In every subject imaginable
Even basket weaving!Fishing how to!
“If you can’t beat ‘em, joint ‘em!”
“If you can’t beat ‘em, joint ‘em!”
In conclusion,hopefully you’re seeing the point ……
“How do we turn our classrooms into learning engines? Pay attention to our children’s intensively rich information experiences.”
If you are not using GPS to teach
If you are not using Blogs to teach
If you are not using emails to teach
If you are not using Wikis to teach
If you are not using the Internet to teach
I would like to thank:http://t4.jordandistrict.org/for the original work posted on youtube.com
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