Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 1 How hip are you? MP3’s Playlist Mpeg Player Rip DVD Ipod Download music Blog Podcasting Avatar Post Blogroll Tagging Emoticon Snood IM RSS Wiki Wikipedia

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 2 Who are these Millenials, these Gen IM’s? Are they different? What do we know about them?

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 3 Generation M: Media In The Lives of 8-18 Year - Olds Pew Internet & American Life Project

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 4

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Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 8

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 9

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 10

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 11

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 13

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 14

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Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 16 The Millenials They are impatient, better educated, digital natives who read less, want more selectivity in their products and services, expect to earn more than their parents, play electronic games, prefer learning experientially, frequently instant and text message and already know that they don't want to work and live like their parents.

 96 percent say that doing well in school is important to their lives.  28 percent of high school students access foreign news sources via the Internet.  90 percent of children between ages 5 and 17 use computers.  Teens spend more time online using the Internet than watching television.  94 percent of online teens use the Internet for school-related research.  24 percent have created their own web pages.  16 percent of teens are shareholders in the stock market.  Teens and college students combined spend nearly $400 billion a year.  25% of teens were hanging out at MySpace 2005 but its down to 12% MySpace is for old people (high school student)  20% of teens now hang out at Xanga BTW – Xanga is Blogging heavy The Millenials

Millennials’ use of information and communications technology reaches to the youngest ages The largest group of new users of the Internet from were 2-5 year olds Millenials – Start ‘em Young

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 19 Toward A New Golden Age In American Education National Education Technology Plan 2004 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Who Are Our Students? As one student put it, “We’re the kids who are going to change things.”

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 20 List of Social Networking Sites That is Million Total numbers of unique visitors to selected social networking sites, as of March 2006

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 21 Read the entire report at: The 6 1/2 hours a day devoted to media compares to about 2 1/4 hours (2:17) spent hanging out with parents, almost 1 1/2 hours (1:25) spent in physical activity each day, just under one hour (0:50) spent doing homework, and about 1/2 hour (0:32) spent doing chores Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners.

SDHT 22 Digital Immigrants Why do we dial a number? Instant messaging Download music P2P Blogging “Did you get my ” phone call? No Sesame Street Digital Natives

The Premise Our students have changed. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 24 “ Online learning ” will be the dominant form of learning for this generation. ” Alan November MIT - every course taught is online - for anyone to take! Starting 2008 every student in Michigan will take a online course before they graduate Current Trends in Educational Technology Online Learning

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 25 Current Trends in Educational Technology One to One Computing Classrooms for the Future Is a bold step toward large-scale high school reform for the 21st Century. This $200 million three-year initiative is designed to improve teaching and learning in Pennsylvania’s high schools by creating technology-enriched instructional settings for English, math, science, and social studies classes. In addition to assisting us to prepare our students for tomorrow’s postsecondary and workforce opportunities, Classrooms for the Future will support reform models for future classrooms across the Country.

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 26 Mashups & filters: example

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 27 Social media: Media sharing Share pictures throughout the world! (Photo a day)

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 28 Brain-Based Learning Research Suggests Immerse learners in complex, interactive experiences A personally meaningful challenge Feedback is best when it comes from reality People learn best when solving realistic problems should allow learners to customize their own environments The best problem solvers are those that laugh! By and large we are a visual species Build on what students already know Engage students in thinking

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 29 How it changed!

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 30 MIT to launch $100 laptop prototype By China Martens, IDG News Service The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its US$100 laptop in November, according to Nicholas Negroponte, the lab’s chairman and co- founder. The facility has been working with industry partners to develop a notebook computer for use by children in primary and secondary education around the world, particularly in developing countries. The laptops should start appearing in volume in late 2006 Who needs handhelds? Current Trends in Educational Technology

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 31 Who needs handhelds?

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 32 What is the worth of words? Will it matter if people can’t read in the future? “Literacy experts and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent adult literacy assessment, which shows that the reading proficiency of college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious explanation. “’It's appalling -- it's really astounding,’ said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. ‘Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder.’” --The Washington Post, December 25, 2005

Our mission is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners. SDHT 33 Produce students that will have a global work ethic – they are in competition with students that will work harder and cheaper be life long learners be able to deal with over whelming amounts of information have global communication skills and the ability to work well with all people be self directed and self motivated Our mandate