Partnering With Our Digital Natives

Partnering With Our Digital Natives
NYCDOE - MOET Partnering With Our Digital Natives For Learning January 19, 2011 NYC Marc Prensky © 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

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?

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

What makes an adult a Digital Immigrant?

“Digital Immigrant Accent”
Those who didn’t grow up with technology often have a “Digital Immigrant Accent” Printing out our s 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 Digitally Wise Person”

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

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

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

Our kids REQUIRE the digital tools

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

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

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

You can add all the digital technology in the world

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

We need to all move to a better pedagogy…

…than just mainly “telling”

“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

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

For teachers and students to work together effectively today,

they need to PARTNER in a new way

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

(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?

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

Today Future

Remember, in the twenty-first century…

Teachers are a tool for educating kids

Teachers need to change into a 21st century tool, too!

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?

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

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:

BEFORE technology can really help learning…

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

Mabry Middle School Video: Adoption

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

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

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

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

What fuel best motivates today’s kids to learn?

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

“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

Do our teachers know their students’ passions?

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

And wrote it down and acted on it (to connect with students and individualize instruction)

We would all be light years ahead

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 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

“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

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

-- 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

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

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

 

The new context for education is that

Technology is getting better every day

I’ve written a book to help you

NO LONGER TO Education is something we can do students

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?

YES if they are given the right motivation

The Five Stages of Educators and Technology

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