Digital Natives and Classrooms for the 21 st Century “Real Change”today is driven by technology and innovation Sid Shugarman

Generational Differences Self identify Baby boomer (50ish-65ish) Gen X (30ish-49ish) Gen Y (15ish-29ish) Millennial How do you like to learn?????????

Shift Happens Teacher tube search “Did you know?” Fischbowl

Who and Where is the competition? Local or Global

Commonalities?

Rip Van Winkle awakens in the year 2007 after a 100 year snooze and is utterly bewildered by what he sees. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls, every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. “This is a school,” he declares. “We used to have these back in 1906, only now the blackboards are green.”

Digital Natives

Ian Jukes Mark Prensky: “Digital Natives.” Today’s College Graduate spent hours playing video games Spent hours watching TV sent and received s Has seen commercials Spent hours on the phone spent countless hours listening to music, surfing the web and instant messaging Spent hours in school Spent hours reading* In 2004 more than 2 million American kids had their own websites Lives in a Universe with more than: TV stations, radio stations, 8 billion plus page Internet Visual cortex ~30% larger/mature ~3.5 years earlier

Drop out Stats April 3, 2008 A report released Tuesday by an educational advocacy group founded by retired general and former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell finds that almost half of all public high school students in the US’ fifty largest cities fail to graduate. The report states that only 52 percent of public high school students in these cities graduate after four years, while the national average is 70 percent. Some 1.2 million public high school students drop out every year, according to researchers. (a city the size of Greater Edmonton) The findings are based on federal Department of Education statistics for the school year.

The most current data we have is for The data will not be released until May of this coming year. % of student who complete high school in three years – 63.5% % of student who complete high school in four years – 70.1 % of student who complete high school in five years – 72.7%

We lose ~30% of the kids that enter high school. Dr? Lawyer? Delivery Person?

Better Thinkers, Deeper Thinkers, Creative Thinkers, Critical Thinkers…

Suitable environments from Jensen (Where we teach)