2.  Speaker  Writer  Consultant  Innovator In the field of education and learning

3.  Singularity : the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.  Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hs of their lives reading but over 10,000 hours playing videogames.

4. Today´s students think and process information differently from their teachers. O ur students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.

5.  WHO ARE THEY? They’re our students today.  WHAT DO THEY DO?  use the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.  are used to receiving information really fast.  like to parallel process and multi-task.  prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite.  prefer random access (like hypertext).  They function best when networked.

9.  WHO ARE THEY?  People who were not born into the digital world  They have become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology.  They always retain, to some degree, their " accent," that is, their foot in the past.

11. I’ll tell you for the last time grandpa.. You DON’T NEED A PAPERKNIFE TO OPEN AN E-MAIL!!!

15.  Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.

16. How immigrants teach How natives learn slowly step-by-step one thing at a time individually seriously (they were taught that way) They are used to: hypertext downloading music phones in their pockets a library on their laptops beamed and instant messages. Working on the net

18. Methodology: Learning to communicate in the language and style of our students. 1. going faster 2. less step-by step 3. more in parallel 4. with more random access

19. Content › Reading › Writing › Arithmetic › logical thinking › understanding the writings and ideas of the past › Digital and technological › Inclusion of software › Hardware › Robotics Legacy Traditional curriculum Future

20.  NECESSITY OF NEW INVENTIONS  USE OF COMPUTER GAMES  ADAPTATION OF MATERIALS DIGITAL NATIVES ARE FAMILIAR WITH