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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