Digital-Students

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 * What characterizes students of the 21st century?

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 * I love this video! It reminds me of another one that you can also find on www.teachertube.com called Did you Know 2.0? That video has had some revision, so there are several versions out there, but I love the facts that it uses. Did you Know 2.0 proves to be a bit more general in scope and less concerned with the particulars of education, but the information in it should inform our teaching just as much! Combined with the information in the video above, the ideas in those two videos have directly influenced my teaching style and have shifted my ideas about the lenses through which I know that my students learn. To speak metaphorically, if our students' brains are round holes...well, in the past, we may have been trying to push square pegs of facts through them--a painful and often impossible process. Perhaps the technology available to us can help round off those square pegs to make our content more meaningful and hopefully "fit" better with the way that our students want to learn. In my three years of teaching, even the most jaded 12th graders have never said, "I don't want to learn." Every person wants to learn--it's just a matter of engaging them in meaningful work. (Peyten Dobbs)
 * Peyten, thanks for the suggestion. I just watched the video and I think it would be a good introduction for our work. It sets the context for why the 21st century classroom cannot just look, be, and act the same as the 20th century classroom. The change is exponential and the United States is somewhat on the sidelines watching (not completely). I have added a link to the video for people to use.
 * [|Did You Know? 2.0]
 * [|Did You Know? 3.0]
 * Edutopia article about digital learners http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner
 * Another powerful video about digital learners...