Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
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ISBN: 1412975417 / Publisher: Corwin, March 2010
A new paradigm for teaching and learning in the 21st century!Marc Prensky, who first coined the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," presents an innovative model that promotes student learning through the use of technology. Discover how to implement partnership learning, in which: Digitally literate students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media Teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and "getting things done"
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Prensky, an international speaker, writer, consultant, education and learning futurist, and founder of educational companies, details approaches for teachers and school leaders to make learning relevant for today's technologically-intelligent students. Arguing that the increasingly technological world has created a need for a pedagogy that incorporates it, he proposes a partnership model that promotes student learning through technology in which students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media, and teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality, with administrators who support, organize, and facilitate the process. He outlines strategies, steps, ideas, and examples for this partnering, and methods for implementation, setting up the classroom, connecting to current curriculum, using students' passions to motivate them, emphasizing skills, making learning real, using technology like cell phones, games, and Web 2.0, student creation, continuous improvement, and assessment. An annotated list of about 130 technologies is included. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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