Transcript How to Lose Your Digital Accent

How to Lose Your Digital
Accent
What ideas digital immigrants
should be familiar with when
teaching digital natives
How do digital natives use
technology?
URL: www.netday.org/SPEAKUP
Net Day Speak Up Report, 2005
How do digital natives use
technology?
How do digital natives use
technology?
How do digital natives use
technology?
How do digital natives use
technology?
Web 2: The Read/Write Web
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Next frontier: we all create content
Empowering
Disruptive
“Our kids’ work needs to fly; it can’t just
be paper passed in a classroom.”
Learning doesn’t have to be linear
 2006 K-12 Online ConferenceDavid Warlick - Keynote speaker-Derailing
Education- Taking Sidetrips for Learning
 2006 OELMA Conference
Will Richardson - learned more in 5 years of
blogging than in his formal education
Keep up with RSS
 RSS = Real Simple Syndication
Using a subscription feed to collect information in
one place (an aggregator)
 Bloglines www.Bloglines.com
 Learn more:
RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators
Blog
 Stephen Abrams- Stephen’s Lighthouse
 http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/index.rdf
 Doug Johnson- Blue Skunk Blog
 http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/atom.xml
 Joyce Valenza- The Neverending Search
 http://joycevalenza.edublogs.org/feed/rss/
 Library Weblogs- Index
 http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
Social Networking Tools
 Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us share
bookmarks
 Flock http://www.flock.com browser
software
 Flickr http://www.flickr.com share
pictures
Podcasting ideas
 iTunes as a source
 Grammar Girl
 For Professional Development
 Will Richardson
 David Warlick
Will Richardson’s Reading List
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Free Culture Lawrence Lessig
A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink
Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins
The World is Flat Thomas Friedman
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined David
Weinberger