Digital+Citizens

Creating successful Digital Citizens - 2011

Discussion following viewing of Lee Crockett's Ulearn Keynote


 * Implications for teaching and learning**

We need to challenge our assumptions about how to teach and need to have an open mind about new ways of learning.

Digital Learners have a whole different set of learning behaviours and styles. They are neurowired differently – hyperlinked minds
 * Parallel processing and multi-tasking and random access to content
 * Plan for opportunities to students to take greater control of, and responsibility for, their learning path
 * Key Competencies
 * Pictures, sounds, **colours** and video BEFORE text.
 * Text now complements pictures to clarify understanding
 * Colours of font and background
 * Eye tracking (F)
 * Just in time learning rather than just in case (might need in the future)
 * To acquire a new skill to use now
 * Immediate and deferred gratification as well as instant and delayed rewards
 * Critical decision making by students
 * Timetabling implications – who decides when and what we learn?
 * Use digital learning objects – group problem solving
 * Web Quests
 * Video games and play stations for teaching and learning
 * They have an expectation that they will interact with a screen (not passive audience for information) – a place to project their identify on to
 * Learning needs to be relevant, active, instantly useful and fun
 * INQUIRY – needs, wants, interests
 * Headware not hardware – critical and creative thinking
 * 21st Century fluencies
 * Solution
 * Information
 * Creativity
 * Media
 * Collaboration
 * These skills can not be measured by traditional standardised tests but need to be taught from 5!
 * As important as the traditional literacies
 * Teachers need to allow students to be connected and engaged with multimedia WITHIN the normal classroom environment.
 * Teachers need to model and articulate:
 * Learning – Unlearning – Relearning

Teacher voice: Kirsty, Jocelyn, Ngaire, Clare, Jo 30 November 2010

F **What are the 10 key points for you?** ** 1. Competency based learning (Transferable skills) Linked to digital citizenship ** ** 2. Importance of images over text. ** ** 3. Colour is important (especially for Digital natives). ** ** 4. We are moving towards being a right brain society. ** ** 5. Just in time rather than just in case learning and teaching ** ** 6. Sequential learning as well as multi tasking learning multisource and task. Linear vs jump around like a honey bee manner ** ** 7. Digi natives prefer instant gratification and reward ** ** 8. Digi natives require skills and knowledge to find and discern information. Headware over hardware ** ** 9. Which information is relevant and reliable on the net, discernment is key… ** What are we not seeing because there is too much action? ** 10. Their future is not our past… **

F ** What are the implications of this, for the teachers and students at y/our school? How can this information change my/our teaching/learning programmes? **

// What skills do chn need to interact and thrive in this world. // // Is school engaging to our learners? // // Are teachers actually in the way of learning? Slowing it down so we can keep up. // // F shaped reading of digi natives… This is supported by popular websites (T/me, Wikispaces, You tube) // // Our classrooms need to be colourful and engaging full of stimulating images etc… // // Should education be more entertaining? // // Young chn are actively engaged at home them come to school for engaging… // // We need to think up rich questions without a ready online answer… // // Skills are becoming broader and more easily applied to a range of situations…transferable skills…How do we as educators ensure all students see the many possible applications to these skills eg: Word skills applied to publisher or wikispaces… //