1. Are we paying attention

2. to how our students learn?

3. Today’s average college graduates have spent:

4. over 10,000 hours playing video games, Interactive Videogames, Mediascope. June 1996.

5. over 10,000 hours talking on cell phones, Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives Digital Immigrants.

6. and roughly 20,000 hours watching TV. Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives Digital Immigrants.

7. Who are they?

8. Digital Learners

9. Why? “Richness” Bill Gates, in describing many of Microsoft’s products.

10. How much richness does our curriculum provide?

11. Do our students remember

12. understand

13. apply

14. analyze

15. evaluate

16. create? Anderson, L.W. and Krathwohl, D.(Eds.) (2001). A taxonomy for teaching, learning, and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives.

17. What do our students create?

18. “These [kids] were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other.” Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project.

19. Are we engaging them?

20. Why not use the technology that our students love, to create more effectively?

21. reach more effectively?

22. engage more effectively?

23. teach more effectively?

24. Our students are immersed in the new 3R’s, Rigor Relevance Relationships Daggett, W. (2005). Successful Schools: From Research to Action Plans.

25. How are we using the new WWW to teach our students? Whatever Whenever Wherever

26. Consider using new ways to teach with the Internet:

27. blogs, podcasts, online collaborations, wikis.

28. “How do we turn our classrooms into learning engines? Pay attention to our children’s intensely rich information experiences.” Warlick, D. (2006). Teaching and Learning on the Edge of Change.