Partnering With Our Digital Natives NYCDOE - MOET Partnering With Our Digital Natives For Learning January 19, 2011 NYC Marc Prensky marc@games2train.com www.marcprensky.com © 2011 Marc Prensky 1 © 2011 Marc Prensky

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge; not knowledge in pursuit of the child -- G.B.Shaw

in the learning process We want to get all students more engaged in the learning process

Engagement = MOTIVATION

To motivate is to turn on the students’ lights!! © 2011 Marc Prensky

“ENGAGE ME or ENRAGE ME” – Dr. Kip Leland ex LAUSD © 2011 Marc Prensky

Digital Natives Digital Immigrants If the games Generations are Digital Natives, what does that make the older generations – those who make or buy the e-Learning that the Digital natives use? One way to think of them is as “Digital Immigrants.” They came to the digital shores later in life, and they had to learn to cope with digital technology as adults. © 2011 Marc Prensky

What makes a student a Digital Native? © 2011 Marc Prensky

What makes a student a Digital Native? Knowledge? Capabilities? Attitude? Comfort Level? X √ © 2011 Marc Prensky

What makes an adult a Digital Immigrant? © 2011 Marc Prensky

“Digital Immigrant Accent” Those who didn’t grow up with technology often have a “Digital Immigrant Accent” Printing out our e-mails Not instinctively going to the Internet FIRST Not sharing easily Assuming “Real Life” happens only offline Thinking the way WE learned to do things is the right way (or, worse, the only way) © 2011 Marc Prensky

Should be the older person outside, with the kids Inside taking off 21st CENTURY EDUCATOR © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2003 Marc Prensky

My first message is

The latest digital tools ARE REQUIRED for all our students

Digital Natives Digital Immigrants If the games Generations are Digital Natives, what does that make the older generations – those who make or buy the e-Learning that the Digital natives use? One way to think of them is as “Digital Immigrants.” They came to the digital shores later in life, and they had to learn to cope with digital technology as adults. © 2011 Marc Prensky

We are all moving to something NEW Digital Immigrants ?? We are all moving to something NEW Digital Natives © 2011 Marc Prensky

The world is “birthing” a new type of person… © 2011 Marc Prensky

…who requires digital tools to live and work © 2011 Marc Prensky

“H. sapiens digital” © 2011 Marc Prensky

“The Digitally Wise Person” © 2011 Marc Prensky

Wisdom requires digital tools © 2011 Marc Prensky

“What do you mean requires?” © 2011 Marc Prensky

H. Sapiens required tools Cars Eyeglasses Timepieces Money Keys Clothing Black or White Boards Paper, Pens, Pencils Books © 2011 Marc Prensky

H. Sapiens Digital’s required tools? All of the above, plus Computer Network Mobile phone IM GPS etc. © 2011 Marc Prensky

Why? Because there are things our brains do well, and things machines do better © 2011 Marc Prensky

Things our brains do well © 2011 Marc Prensky

We reason We reflect and contemplate We combine reason and emotion We solve problems We learn from experience We work with other people We create We store and retrieve We build up expertise We have empathy We have a sense of context We have a sense of humor We tell stories We lie

Things our brains do LESS well © 2011 Marc Prensky

We make decisions based on only a portion of the available data. We make assumptions, often inaccurate, about the thoughts or intentions of others. We depend on educated guessing and verification (the traditional scientific method) to find new answers. We are limited in our ability to predict the future and construct what-if scenarios. We cannot deal well with complexity beyond a certain point. We cannot see, hear, touch, feel, or smell beyond the range of our senses. We find it difficult to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously. We have difficulty separating emotional responses from rational conclusions. We forget.

WISDOM, in the 21st century Those things our BRAIN DOES WELL means combining Those things our BRAIN DOES WELL Those things that MACHINES DO BETTER with © 2011 Marc Prensky

“My phone is my third hand” -- a high school student © 2011 Marc Prensky

“If I lose my cell phone I lose half my brain” -- a high school student © 2011 Marc Prensky

“In olden days you had to memorize phone numbers.” -- a 10-year-oldstudent © 2011 Marc Prensky

A central problem for the future of education is What do we keep in our heads, and what do we delegate to machines ? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Our kids REQUIRE the digital tools © 2011 Marc Prensky

To become Digitally Wise, students require the latest/best ways to: Network Communicate Present Understand LEARN © 2011 Marc Prensky

and… © 2011 Marc Prensky

evaluating students with their tools! Our teachers need to start evaluating students with their tools! © 2011 Marc Prensky

e.g., by giving © 2011 Marc Prensky

“Open Phone” Tests!! © 2011 Marc Prensky

“Most of our tests ARE open phone tests – you guys just don’t know it – A Student © 2011 Marc Prensky

Action item: START ALLOWING CELL PHONES (and using them educationally) Many districts are already doing this successfully © 2011 Marc Prensky

BUT… © 2011 Marc Prensky

Do digital tools lead automatically to learning? or engagement? or wisdom? © 2011 Marc Prensky

and that’s where educators come in NO! and that’s where educators come in © 2011 Marc Prensky

Although some think adding technology is the answer to getting engagement © 2011 Marc Prensky

…or learning © 2011 Marc Prensky

…or even wisdom © 2011 Marc Prensky

You can add all the digital technology in the world © 2011 Marc Prensky

And it won’t help much… © 2011 Marc Prensky

If it’s not well-integrated with the pedagogy (i. e If it’s not well-integrated with the pedagogy (i.e. with the learning and teaching) © 2011 Marc Prensky

So, HOW should we teach? © 2011 Marc Prensky

We need to all move to a better pedagogy… © 2011 Marc Prensky

…than just mainly “telling” © 2011 Marc Prensky

“My teachers just talk and talk and talk.” -- students everywhere © 2011 Marc Prensky

I call this better pedagogy PARTNERING © 2011 Marc Prensky

But it goes by many names © 2011 Marc Prensky

it’s basically the same! You can call it: Active Learning Collaborative Learning Case-Based Learning (CBL) Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) Student-Centered Learning Learning by Doing Challenge-Based Learning Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Lng it’s basically the same! © 2011 Marc Prensky

Those are all basically brand names for the same thing © 2011 Marc Prensky

For teachers and students to work together effectively today, © 2011 Marc Prensky

they need to PARTNER in a new way © 2011 Marc Prensky

SHARE THE WORK Where we Students do what they do well Teachers do Use technology Find content Create Ask questions Add quality & rigor Put into context © 2011 Marc Prensky

CAN TEACH THEMSELVES! (but need guidance) Today, our kids © 2011 Marc Prensky

(with our coaching and guidance) How should we teach? Old Way Better Way Students teaching themselves (with our coaching and guidance) Students being told BOREDOM ENGAGEMENT © 2011 Marc Prensky

What is the role of the 21st c. teacher? © 2011 Marc Prensky

1 2 3 4 5 21st Century Pedagogy = a move from: Lecturer Controller “Ruler” Coach Guide Partner to 1 2 3 4 5 © 2011 Marc Prensky

each of your teachers is Do you know where each of your teachers is along this continuum? Coaching, guiding and partnering with your students Lecturing to and controlling your students 1 2 3 4 5 © 2011 Marc Prensky

Today Future 1 2 3 4 5

Remember, in the twenty-first century… © 2011 Marc Prensky

Tools are changing © 2011 Marc Prensky

and… © 2011 Marc Prensky

Teachers are a tool for educating kids © 2011 Marc Prensky

Teachers need to change into a 21st century tool, too! © 2011 Marc Prensky

role in their students’ education is changing! The teacher’s role in their students’ education is changing! © 2011 Marc Prensky

Preparing their students for their exams Teachers need to be Preparing their students for their unknown future Preparing their students for their exams Preparing your students for their exams? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Helping students graduate and go to college Teachers need to be Helping each student find their passion Helping students graduate and go to college Preparing your students for their exams? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Preparing their students for a world where most Teachers need to be Preparing their students for a world where most Information is in forms OTHER than written Preparing their students for a world where most Information is written © 2011 Marc Prensky

What’s the role of technology? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Technology’s role is TO SUPPORT THE PARTNERING PEDAGOGY (i.e. students teaching themselves with their teachers’ coaching and guidance) © 2011 Marc Prensky

DOES NOT and CANNOT SUPPORT Technology DOES NOT and CANNOT SUPPORT the pedagogy of lecturing and telling (“direct instruction”) except in the most minimal of ways: i.e. pictures and videos

Gibralter

If a teacher is lecturing or telling, adding technology to a classroom can actually HINDER engagement and learning! © 2011 Marc Prensky

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops May 4, 2007 DIDN’T CHANGE HOW THEY TAUGHT LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around it but also posted step-by-step instructions on the Web for others to follow (which they did). … So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse. © 2011 Marc Prensky

my second message is

There is a key PREREQUISITE to adding and using technology: © 2011 Marc Prensky

BEFORE technology can really help learning… © 2011 Marc Prensky

Teachers must Change their pedagogy… © 2011 Marc Prensky

To PARTNERING © 2011 Marc Prensky

A manual for switching to partnering

Yes, our teachers need to be using the latest tools… © 2011 Marc Prensky

NEW TOOLS Sped-up video P2P Picture Search You Tube IM/texting Blogs Wikis Wikipedia Podcasting Phone polling Social Nets Handhelds P2P You Tube Web 2.0 (Participatory) Web 3.0 (Semantic) Augmented Reality Phone cameras Phone videos GPS Games & Simulations MoSoSo © 2011 Marc Prensky

But only in the right context i.e. in support of the Partnering Pedagogy © 2011 Marc Prensky

Step 2: Let kids use the technology to take off! Step 1: Change to the Partnering Pedagogy Step 2: Let kids use the technology to take off! © 2011 Marc Prensky

We need to

Focus Professional Development on CHANGING PEDOGAGY first

And only then on technology tools

Technology is for the students to use NOT the teachers

And when the students do use the tools, we should have © 2011 Marc Prensky

REALLY HIGH EXPECTATIONS © 2011 Marc Prensky

For what they can do © 2011 Marc Prensky

Mabry Middle School Video: Adoption

10 Things Today’s Students Want © 2011 Marc Prensky

10 Things Today’s Students Want 1. They want to be respected, trusted, and have their opinions valued and count © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want to follow their own interests and passions 10 Things Today’s Students Want 2. They want to follow their own interests and passions © 2011 Marc Prensky

10 Things Today’s Students Want 3. They want to create © 2011 Marc Prensky

10 Things Today’s Students Want 4. They want to use the tools of their time © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want to work with their peers on group work and projects 10 Things Today’s Students Want 5. They want to work with their peers on group work and projects (with ways to prevent slackers from getting a free ride) © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want to express and share their opinions 10 Things Today’s Students Want 6. They want to express and share their opinions © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want to make decisions and share control 10 Things Today’s Students Want 7. They want to make decisions and share control © 2011 Marc Prensky

10 Things Today’s Students Want 8. They want to connect with their peers, both in class and around the world © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want to cooperate and compete with each other 10 Things Today’s Students Want 9. They want to cooperate and compete with each other © 2011 Marc Prensky

They want an education that is not just relevant, 10 Things Today’s Students Want 10. They want an education that is not just relevant, but REAL © 2011 Marc Prensky

We need to see our students in a more positive way © 2011 Marc Prensky

A New Metaphor © 2011 Marc Prensky

Our students are ROCKETS! © 2011 Marc Prensky

Our students are ROCKETS! They go at high speed They are headed to places unknown They are highly volatile They can’t be controlled precisely They need good programming, the right fuel and a good payload They may require mid-course corrections They have an enormous potential payoff! © 2011 Marc Prensky

ROCKET SCIENTISTS! (who knew!) And that makes today’s teachers © 2011 Marc Prensky

What fuel best motivates today’s kids to learn? © 2011 Marc Prensky

PASSION THEIR The Environment Motorcycles Space Dance Sports Music The Internet People Medicine THEIR PASSION Coins History Writing Singing Nature Animals Business Programming © 2011 Marc Prensky

passion, not discipline” “Learning [and certainly engagement] comes from passion, not discipline” – —Nicholas Negroponte © 2011 Marc Prensky

Learning from passion lasts a lot longer! © 2011 Marc Prensky

“Passion-based Learning” The new mantra: “Passion-based Learning” © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2003 Marc Prensky

FIRST Robotics

Humanoid Robot Programming Competitions

Dimension M Math Competitions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFsMIsuKSo

Do our teachers know their students’ passions? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Not enough! © 2011 Marc Prensky

What percent of teachers know the passion of each of their students? Most teachers would say less than 20 percent © 2011 Marc Prensky

What percent of students think all their teachers know their passion? Almost none © 2011 Marc Prensky

What percent of students WANT their teachers to know their passion? All of them © 2011 Marc Prensky

My third message is

Encourage PASSION-BASED LEARNING

If tomorrow every teacher asked every kid © 2011 Marc Prensky

“What are you passionate about?” © 2011 Marc Prensky

And wrote it down and acted on it (to connect with students and individualize instruction) © 2011 Marc Prensky

We would all be light years ahead © 2011 Marc Prensky

If we want our kids to be the best in the world, we don’t need to…

Test them to death. We need to…

Always put People and Passion before Classes and Content

“I used to teach my subject; now I teach my students.” --the best teachers

A better way to think about technology: Now let me suggest A better way to think about technology: Nouns vs. Verbs © 2011 Marc Prensky

A better way to think of technology: Verbs (Skills) Nouns (Tools) Presenting Powerpoint Flash Communicating Email Texting Twitter Learning Wikipedia You Tube ???? Stay the same Change rapidly © 2011 Marc Prensky

VERBS Stay the same Thinking critically Presenting logically Communicating Decision Making Being rigorous Understanding Context Persuading © 2011 Marc Prensky

NOUNS Change Books  Videos BlackboardsElectonic Boards OverheadsPPTFlash Clickersmobile phones LaptopsNetbooks Mobile PhonesiPhones FaceBookTwitter? © 2011 Marc Prensky

nouns (tools) for each verb (skill) Ideally, our students should be using the best, most up-to-date nouns (tools) for each verb (skill) © 2011 Marc Prensky

Students need the latest/best way: To network To communicate To present To calculate TO LEARN © 2011 Marc Prensky

Don’t overinvest In any one noun (tool) © 2011 Marc Prensky

“I would never use another textbook to teach.” If many of our best teachers say: “I would never use another textbook to teach.” – A model teacher © 2011 Marc Prensky

“I never use my textbooks to learn.” If many of our students say: “I never use my textbooks to learn.” – Many students © 2011 Marc Prensky

Is a textbook the right noun to be using? © 2011 Marc Prensky

Or should we be putting our limited funds into more appropriate nouns for the same verbs? © 2011 Marc Prensky

and will soon need to change every year! Technology is becoming more and more DISPOSABLE and will soon need to change every year! © 2011 Marc Prensky

More and more teachers know these things Many are already changing But some don’t know how, and are afraid to try © 2011 Marc Prensky

OUR JOB IS TO HELP THEM © 2011 Marc Prensky

HOW SHOULD teachers use technology tools? © 2011 Marc Prensky

-- a (female) high school junior “A lot of teachers think they make a PowerPoint and they’re so awesome!” -- a (female) high school junior © 2011 Marc Prensky

“But it’s just like writing on the blackboard!” -- a (female) high school junior © 2011 Marc Prensky

“THE PRENSKY APOSTASY” (The stress-reducing bit) © 2011 Marc Prensky

DON’T WASTE THEIR TIME It’s important that teachers Learning to Create With New Tools, (unless they want to) © 2011 Marc Prensky

because… © 2011 Marc Prensky

The students can do that! (and they want to) © 2011 Marc Prensky

“Don’t try to keep up with the technology -- you can’t” – A 15 year old girl © 2011 Marc Prensky

“You’ll only look stupid.” – A 15 year old girl © 2011 Marc Prensky

Teachers should never use the technology RULE #1 Teachers should never use the technology FOR their students! © 2011 Marc Prensky

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3D PRINTER © 2011 Marc Prensky

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The new context for education is that

We all live in an era of accelerating Change © 2011 Marc Prensky

Technology is getting better every day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIOIM6hHBk

Our students are fast becoming… © 2011 Marc Prensky

mobile mobiles © 2011 Marc Prensky

Technology is… © 2011 Marc Prensky

control roller coaster Moving like an out-of- control roller coaster © 2011 Marc Prensky

Our pedagogy is… © 2011 Marc Prensky

…in need of renewal © 2011 Marc Prensky

BUT DON’T WORRY! © 2011 Marc Prensky

I’ve written a book to help you © 2011 Marc Prensky

Corwin, March 2011 © 2011 Marc Prensky

And… © 2011 Marc Prensky

Our students can help! © 2011 Marc Prensky

NO LONGER TO Education is something we can do students © 2011 Marc Prensky

In order to educate them Today, we have to with Engage Students In order to educate them © 2011 Marc Prensky

Engaging With Students Talk with them © 2011 Marc Prensky

No one asked! © 2011 Marc Prensky

With technology, we can do: Old things in old ways Old things in new ways New things in new ways = INNOVATION © 2011 Marc Prensky

Can people’s behavior change? © 2011 Marc Prensky

YES if they are given the right motivation © 2011 Marc Prensky

The Five Stages of Educators and Technology © 2011 Marc Prensky

1. Hiding © 2011 Marc Prensky

2. Panic © 2011 Marc Prensky

3. Acceptance © 2011 Marc Prensky

4. Comfort © 2011 Marc Prensky

5. Power © 2011 Marc Prensky

For supporting the students! Thank You – For supporting the students! © 2011 Marc Prensky

marc@games2train.com To get the slides: email: web site www.marcprensky.com © 2011 Marc Prensky