Prensky's Concept Map
From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom
Listening to Our Students
Inspiring Teachers
Not Easy
Thinking Long Term
Some General Observations
Exposure to how little students’ opinions are listened to and taken into account.
What is taking place in education is not a “dumbing down” of this generation.
The process of learning is poorly understood.
There is a huge problem with how we teach.
Technology becomes obsolete before it can add value.
What we teach.
Accomplishment-Based Education
Technology’s empowering of our youth to accomplish huge amounts of desperately-needed tasks in the world.
Not Grades, Accomplishments
Why Our Current “Reforms” are Failures
Technology Turns Disposable
Storage is now disposable.
Verbs are the unchanging things we always want all students to do (e.g. communicate, analyze, present, understand, create)
Nouns are the rapidly changing tools for doing these things.
Nouns and Verbs
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