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=Educating students for the 21st century--what does that mean?= =#1. Please watch the following video:=

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=#2. Please read the following article:= 

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 * 1. What are 3 things you know now that you didn’t know before? ** **2. What 2 things are you going to tell your faculty, family, and friends? ** **3. What action are you going to start taking right now? **=====

As you read, you may wish to use the following links to guide your reading and enhance your understanding of the article.

 * Mentioned throughout the attached article is the book, //Everything Bad is Good for You// by Steven Johnson. Go to the following link to hear about a 9-minute interview with the author on NPR:

__http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4663852 __ 
 * As well, Daniel Pink is referenced. His web page is __http://www.danpink.com/ __ and worth the time. His work, //A Whole New Mind// is one of my favorites.
 * Page 19 of the Jukes' article mentions an article entitled "The Teen Brain" by Robert Epstein. Epstein has a newer article titled "The Myth of the Teen Brain" which can be found at

__http://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/Epstein-THE_MYTH_OF_THE_TEEN_BRAIN-Scientific_American_Mind-4-07.pdf __  {My favorite line from this article: "...that when we treat teens like adults, they almost immediately rise to the challenge." Page 63}  
 * Of most importance, I believe is the section beginning on page 19 that talks about visual processing. Check out this link to learn about the F-pattern for Reading as described by Jakob Nielsen:

__http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html __ 
 * The link to the study mentioned on page 25 can actually be found at

__http://it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves/edit6900/BertelsmannReeves98.pdf __

=Understanding Digital Kids=



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=#4. In your groups, discuss the following questions and be prepared to discuss your thoughts with the larger group:=

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 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">1. What implications does this research on the brain, the mind and learning hold for **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">schools? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">2. More personally, what implications does this research hold for how teachers do **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">their job? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3. What will students need to know and do to be able to function in the coming ages? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">What will it mean to be educated in the 21st Century. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">4. Does this research have any implications for teachers’ roles in addressing the **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">learning and communications preferences of digital children? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">What do we see in schools today? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Now let’s contrast these findings with what we see in schools & classrooms today. **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">1. Do our schools, do our classrooms, do our teaching practices reflect the dramatic **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">changes that have taken place in our world during the past few years? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">2. Do schools reflect the reality of the world as it is? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">3. Do our assumptions about teaching and learning align with the issues raised by this **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">research and this handout? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">4. Or do our schools reflect our past, our values, our thinking, our perspectives, our **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">experiences, our comfort zone, or us? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">5. Is there dissonance between what was and what is? **
 * <span style="color: navy; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">6. Is there a dissonance between what is and what should be? **

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