Students and learning

 Today’s students are likely to be a wired
generation and today’s teachers and parents
are asking for help from younger kids and
even their children

 Technology affects how we live,
communicate, when and where, and how we
learn

 Netdays findings include:
◦ Communication is a key motivator for
students and drives their use of technology
for learning and personal use.

◦ We can see this is true by the percents that
are given towards 21st century students

 71 % of American house holds have web access
 Americans aged 13-24 spend more time online than TV
 65% of students in grades 6-12 use email, personal
pages, and instant messenger every day
 79% play video games
 Only 43% shop

- MYSPACE – there were 100 million users by the time Myspace
celebrated their 3rd anniversary

( All of these percents show that having digital technology at their
fingertips all the time means that students think, work, and play
differently from previous generations)
* Young people are always ahead of the curve

 Even though people use technology in their everyday lives to
communicate, what is being communicated is sometimes a
problem
- Whenever there is a new a popular site, many kids tend to use
that site every day, and listen and believe exactly what they see.
- Because of this, it can lead to people embellishing the truth, and
therefore causing a mass amount of people to believe a lie, and
then spread around false information to the rest of the
population.

 These has caused parents and schools to block access to certain
websites to try to prevent the spread of false information
 Its proven that preschool children are the fastest growing group
online

 Advertisements
 Advice
 Dating
 School
 Youtube
 Music

 Students find the use of technology more
enjoyable, and thus more educational, when
they are able to customize the computers

 In the classroom, allow students to choose
their method of presentation, where they find
their information, and what methods helps
them learn the best

 Studies show that students learn better when
there is a one-on-one student to computer
ratio

 Bloom’s Taxonomy, that illustrates the
cognitive processes involved in learning, has
been updated to adapt to students’ changing
mental processes

 Web Tools help with constructivism because
students have a larger access to research,
collaborate information through wikis, and
illustrate with photos and videos in order
provide a more effective and creative product

 Technology facilitates better project based
activities because students can collaborate
with adults and peers, manage work, engage
in valuable activities, and work as a team

 Combining connectivism and constructivism
in class gives students the opportunity to
gain 21st century skills.

 Today, education goals are focused on
testing rather than higher level thinking and
more meaningful learning

 Inaccurate measurements of intelligence are
the product of standardized testing

 Instruction is narrowed down to just test
materials

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 Question 1:
◦ What does Marc Prensky consider students?

 A. Digital Immigrants
• A. Digital Immigrants
• B. Digital Genius
 B. Digital Genius
• C. Digital Natives
 C. Digital Natives

 Modern students have been raised with
computers, and are thus considered to be
“native speakers” of the digital language

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 Question 2:
◦ What age group is considered the fastest
growing group online?

• A. Preschool
• B. High School
• C. Senior Citizens

 Toy companies are making increasingly
technological toys, thus presenting
preschoolers with access to technology at
much earlier ages


 Question 3:
◦ What is the main reason for parents and
schools blocking certain access to internet
sites?

• A. Being too happy
 A. Being too happy
• B. Myspace
 B. Myspace
Embellishing of the
•C. • C. Embellishing of the truth
truth

 Schools and parents are increasingly worried
about students accessing and passing false
information about themselves


 Question 4:
◦ Students learn best when they are able to
customize their education?

 •True
True
False
 • False

 Students are more interested in learning, and
thus learn better, when they are able to
customize their education


 Question 5:
◦ Most schools have the ability to provide a
one-to-one ratio of students to computers

True
 •True
 • False
False

 Although students learn best with a one-to-
one ratio of students to computers, most
schools cannot afford that many computers


 Question 6:
◦ Bloom’s Taxonomy has been revised
because…

• A. Students are learning differently
• B. The original words were outdated
• C. Scientists proved the taxonomy false
B. The original words were outdated
C. Scientists proved the taxonomy false

 Cognitive Psychologists have discovered more
about how the brain works and the changes
that have occurred as the current generation
becomes more technology dependent


 Question 7:
◦ Which is not a way web tools facilitate
constructivism?

A. It allows larger access to research
A. It allows larger access to research
B. It allows students to collaborate
B. It allows students to collaborate
C. It allows students to illustrate with
 C. It allows students to illustrate with
photos and videos
photos and videos
D. It allows students to blog on facebook
 D. It allows personal crises on facebook
about students to blog
about personal crises

 Facebook and other social networking sites
do not facilitate in the development of new
ideas or concepts


 Question 8:
◦ Combining connectivism and constructivism
in the classroom offers opportunities for
students to gain …

 A.A. 20th Century skills
• 20th Century skills
 B.B. 19th Century skills
• 19th Century skills
 • C. 21st Century Skills
C. 21s

 21st Century skills include higher order
thinking skills, applications of technology,
adapting to change, workplace skills, etc


 Question 9:
◦ Which is not a challenge in education today?

•A. Instruction is based on only information
A.
that can be tested
that can be tested
B. Inaccurate measurements of knowledge
•B. Inaccurate measurements of knowledge
are given by standardized tests tests
are given by standardized
•C. Technology allows students to research a
C. Technology allows students to research
larger amount of topics in a more
a larger amount of topics in a more
creative way way
creative

 Technology is opening up new methods of
learning that help in the development of 21st
century skills

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