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Have you been paying attention
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How do your students learn?
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Are they
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• Interpersonal,

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• Logical,

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• Spatial,

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• Musical,

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• Linguistic or,

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• Bodily-Kinesthetic learners?

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• YES!

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• But mostly theyre
• Digital Learners!

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• Heres why

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• Todays average college
• graduates have spent

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• Over 10,000 hours
• playing video games

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• Over 10,000 hours
• talking on cell phones

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• Over 20,000 hours
• watching TV

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• Todays children and teens spend over 2.75 hours
  a week using home computers.

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• 70 of our nations 4-6 year olds have used a
  computer.

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• In any given day, 68 of children under two will
  use a screen media, for an average of just over 2
  hours.

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• Why?

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• Richness

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• How much Richness does your curriculum provide?

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• Do your students

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• Remember,

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• Understand,

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• Apply,

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• Analyze,

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• Evaluate,

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• and Create?

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• What do your students create?

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• These teens were born into a digital world where
  they expect to be able to create, consume, remix,
  and share material with each other.

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• Are you reaching your students?

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• Have they learned to play school. . .

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• Do they study the right facts the night before
  the test so they achieve a passing grade and thus
  become successful students?

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• Are you engaging them?

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• Its not attention deficit.
• Theyre just not listening!

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• Do any of your students use Google?

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• There are over 2.7 billion searches on Google
  each and every month!

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• To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?
• (Before Google)

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• Why not use the technology that our students love
  to create more effectively?

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• Why not use the technology that our students love
  to reach more effectively?

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• Why not use the technology that our students love
  to engage more effectively?

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• Why not use the technology that our students love
  to teach more effectively?

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• How are you using the new www to teach your
  students?

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• www
• whatever
• whenever
• wherever

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• Consider these ways to use the Internet in
  teaching

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• Blogs

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• Wikis

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• Podcasts

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• Online testing

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• Online collaboration

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• Webquests,

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• Google Earth,

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• Virtual Manipulatives,

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• Virtual Tours,

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• ePortfolios,

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• Writing,

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• Reading,

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• and Reflection,

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• Did you know

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• Only 28 of 12 graders believe that school work
  is meaningful.

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• Only 21 believe that their courses are
  interesting

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• And a mere 39 believe that schoolwork will have
  any bearing on their success in later life.

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• And these are the opinions of students that
  actually graduate!

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• Engage them,
• dont enrage them!

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• iPod Podcast
• Anytime Learning

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• Perhaps they wouldnt hate school if they could
  use their iPods in class!

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• Did you know

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• There are 90,000 unique video and audio podcasts
  currently being served to over 1.6 million
  subscribers?

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• If you cant reach your students by speaking
  directly to them

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• Teach them via podcast!

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• If you cant beat them, join them!

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• Hopefully youre seeing the point

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• How do we transform our classrooms?

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• Pay attention to our childrens intensely rich
  information experiences.

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• If you are not using email to teach

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• If you are not using wikis to teach

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• If you are not using webquests to teach

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• If you are not using the Internet to teach

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• If you are not using podcasting to teach

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• If you are not using technology to teach

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• You should be!

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• But then again you already know that

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• And your students do too!

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• Southgate Community School District
• Technology Services
• http//www.southgateschools.com/sgatepage.php?page
  techservices

This presentation was adapted from Darren
Drapers work in Jordan School District, Utah.
All statistics are referenced in his original
work, http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?vi
ewkey40c570a322f1b0b65909