Consumers to Creators

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Consumers to Creators
How to teach todays students

• Brad Fountain
• Discovery Education
• http//blog.discoveryeducation.com/

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
  those who cannot read and write, but those who
  cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• - Alvin Toffler

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Who are 21st Century Learners?
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Are They REALLY That Different?
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Who are 21st Century Learners?
Top Five Gifts for Teenagers

• Portable Game Device
• Cell Phone
• Computer
• Video Game Console
• MP3 Player/iPods

Source Starkman, Neal (2007).Leave Me Alone....
T.H.E. Journal. 33-38.
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Search Engines moving toward video
YouTube other sites
Hitwise, Phil Butler, profy.com
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Are They REALLY That Different?

• 21st Century Students Brain
• Neuroplasticity
• Hypertext Minds
• Environmental Impact
• Thinking Patterns
• ADD or Disengaged

Marc Prensky Digital Natives, Digital
Immigrants Part 2
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Are you ready for my little girl?
Name Alex Age 3 1/2
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How People Learn

• A research-based synthesis consisting of 30 years
  of educational research indicates need for social
  participation.

Brown, Ann L, Cocking, Rodney R Bransford ,
John D. How People Learn Brain, Mind,
Experience, and School. Washington National
Academies Press, 2000.
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Where is your Personal Learning Community?
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What about safetyand What About Me?
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So What Does this Mean for Teachers and Schools?
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• If you are not prepared to be wrong, youll
  never come up with anything original. By the
  time students become adults they have lost that
  capacity. And national education systems are
  where mistakes are the worst things you can make.
  The result is we are educating people out of
  their creative capacities. - Sir Ken
  Robinson

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Being Literate Today Means
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Putting it into practice.
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Where do I Start?

• Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0

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Tools of the Trade

• Online Collaborations
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Google Docs/Spreadsheets
• Skype
• Twitter

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Tools of the Trade

• Slideshare

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Tools of the Trade

• Digital Storytelling
• Voicethread
• Photostory 3
• Movie Maker 2
• Adobe Premiere Elements/iMovie
• Audacity
• Freeplay Music

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What does it look like?

• Digital Stories/Digital Projects
• Book Trailer
• Homophones
• Gods Laugh
• Rock Dating Game

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What does it look like?

• Cross-Curricular Projects on the Web
• Johnny Appleseed Project
• Journey North
• Classroom Blogs
• Mr. Cs Class Blog
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Classroom Podcasts
• Room 208
• RadioWillowweb

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What does it look like?

• Google Earth
• Grapes of Wrath Google Earth Littrip
• Coral Reef Temperatures
• Mapping using addresses
• Wikis
• Vicki Davis
• Tim Frederick
• Technospud

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Some good reads

• Blogs
• 2 Cents Worth David Warlick
• Teach42 Steve Dembo
• The Strength of Weak Ties David Jakes
• Moving at the Speed of Creativity Wes Fryer
• Weblogg-ed Will Richardson
• The Connected Classroom Kristin Hokanson
• Beths Thoughts on Technology in the Classroom
  Beth Knittle
• Books
• Tested Linda Perlstein
• Dont Bother Me MomIm Learning! Marc Prensky
• A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink
• The World is Flat Thomas Friedman
• What Video Games Have to Teach us About Literacy
  and Learning James Paul Gee

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What Will You Do to Make A Difference?
Brad Fountain brad_fountain_at_discovery.com