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NYCDOE - MOET Partnering With Our Digital Natives For Learning January 19, 2011 NYC Marc Prensky [email protected] www.marcprensky.com 1 © © 2011 2011 Marc Marc Prensky Prensky What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge; not knowledge in pursuit of the child -- G.B.Shaw We want to get all students more engaged in the learning process Engagement = MOTIVATION To motivate is to turn on the students’ lights!! © 2011 Marc Prensky “ENGAGE ME or ENRAGE ME” – Dr. Kip Leland ex LAUSD © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2011 Marc Prensky What makes a student a Digital Native? © 2011 Marc Prensky What makes a student a Digital Native? Knowledge? X Capabilities? X Attitude? √ Comfort Level? √ © 2011 Marc Prensky What makes an adult a Digital Immigrant? © 2011 Marc Prensky Those who didn’t grow up with technology often have a “Digital Immigrant Accent” • Printing out our e-mails • Not instinctively going to the Internet FIRST • Not sharing easily • Assuming “Real Life” happens only offline •Thinking the way WE learned to do things is the right way (or, worse, the only way) © 2011 Marc Prensky Should be the older person outside, with the kids Inside taking off © © 2011 2003 Marc Marc Prensky Prensky My first message is The latest digital tools ARE REQUIRED for all our students © 2011 Marc Prensky Digital Immigrants We are all moving to something NEW ?? Digital Natives © 2011 Marc Prensky The world is “birthing” a new type of person… © 2011 Marc Prensky …who requires digital tools to live and work © 2011 Marc Prensky “H. sapiens digital” © 2011 Marc Prensky “The Digitally Wise Person” © 2011 Marc Prensky Wisdom requires digital tools © 2011 Marc Prensky “What do you mean requires?” © 2011 Marc Prensky H. Sapiens required tools Cars Eyeglasses Timepieces Money Keys Clothing Black or White Boards Paper, Pens, Pencils Books © 2011 Marc Prensky H. Sapiens Digital’s required tools? All of the above, plus Computer Network Mobile phone IM GPS etc. © 2011 Marc Prensky Why? Because there are things our brains do well, and things machines do better © 2011 Marc Prensky Things our brains do well © 2011 Marc Prensky • • • • • • • • • • • • • • We We We We We We We We We We We We We We reason reflect and contemplate combine reason and emotion solve problems learn from experience work with other people create store and retrieve build up expertise have empathy have a sense of context have a sense of humor tell stories lie Things our brains do LESS well © 2011 Marc Prensky • We make decisions based on only a portion of the available data. • We make assumptions, often inaccurate, about the thoughts or intentions of others. • We depend on educated guessing and verification (the traditional scientific method) to find new answers. • We are limited in our ability to predict the future and construct what-if scenarios. • We cannot deal well with complexity beyond a certain point. • We cannot see, hear, touch, feel, or smell beyond the range of our senses. • We find it difficult to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously. • We have difficulty separating emotional responses from rational conclusions. • We forget. WISDOM, in the 21st century means combining Those things our BRAIN DOES WELL with Those things that MACHINES DO BETTER © 2011 Marc Prensky “My phone is my third hand” -- a high school student © 2011 Marc Prensky “If I lose my cell phone I lose half my brain” -- a high school student © 2011 Marc Prensky “In olden days you had to memorize phone numbers.” -- a 10-year-oldstudent © 2011 Marc Prensky A central problem for the future of education is What do we keep in our heads, and what do we delegate to machines ? © 2011 Marc Prensky Our kids REQUIRE the digital tools © 2011 Marc Prensky To become Digitally Wise, students require the latest/best ways to: Network Communicate Present Understand LEARN © 2011 Marc Prensky and… © 2011 Marc Prensky Our teachers need to start evaluating students with their tools! © 2011 Marc Prensky e.g., by giving © 2011 Marc Prensky “Open Phone” Tests!! © 2011 Marc Prensky “Most of our tests ARE open phone tests – you guys just don’t know it!” – A Student © 2011 Marc Prensky Action item: START ALLOWING CELL PHONES (and using them educationally) Many districts are already doing this successfully © 2011 Marc Prensky BUT… © 2011 Marc Prensky Do digital tools lead automatically to learning? or engagement? or wisdom? © 2011 Marc Prensky NO! and that’s where educators come in © 2011 Marc Prensky Although some think adding technology is the answer to getting engagement © 2011 Marc Prensky …or learning © 2011 Marc Prensky …or even wisdom © 2011 Marc Prensky You can add all the digital technology in the world © 2011 Marc Prensky And it won’t help much… © 2011 Marc Prensky If it’s not well-integrated with the pedagogy (i.e. with the learning and teaching) © 2011 Marc Prensky So, HOW should we teach? © 2011 Marc Prensky We need to all move to a better pedagogy… © 2011 Marc Prensky …than just mainly “telling” © 2011 Marc Prensky “My teachers just talk and talk and talk.” -- students everywhere © 2011 Marc Prensky I call this better pedagogy PARTNERING © 2011 Marc Prensky But it goes by many names © 2011 Marc Prensky You can call it: Active Learning Collaborative Learning Case-Based Learning (CBL) Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) Student-Centered Learning Learning by Doing Challenge-Based Learning Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Lng it’s basically the same! © 2011 Marc Prensky Those are all basically brand names for the same thing © 2011 Marc Prensky For teachers and students to work together effectively today, © 2011 Marc Prensky they need to PARTNER in a new way © 2011 Marc Prensky Where we SHARE THE WORK Students do what they do well Teachers do what they do well • Use technology • Find content • Create • Ask questions • Add quality & rigor • Put into context © 2011 Marc Prensky Today, our kids CAN TEACH THEMSELVES! (but need guidance) © 2011 Marc Prensky How should we teach? Old Way Better Way Students being told Students teaching themselves BOREDOM (with our coaching and guidance) ENGAGEMENT © 2011 Marc Prensky What is the role of st the 21 c. teacher? © 2011 Marc Prensky 21st Century Pedagogy = a move from: Lecturer Controller “Ruler” 1 2 to 3 Coach Guide Partner 4 5 © 2011 Marc Prensky Do you know where each of your teachers is along this continuum? Coaching, guiding and partnering with your students Lecturing to and controlling your students 1 2 3 4 5 © 2011 Marc Prensky Future Today 1 2 3 4 5 Remember, in the twenty-first century… © 2011 Marc Prensky Tools are changing © 2011 Marc Prensky and… © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers are a tool for educating kids © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers need to change into a st 21 century tool, too! © 2011 Marc Prensky The teacher’s role in their students’ education is changing! © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers need to be Preparing students Preparing their their Preparing your students students for their unknown future for their exams for their exams? © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers need to be Helping students graduate Helping each Preparing your student students and go toexams? college find their passion for their © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers need to be Preparing their students Preparing their students for a world where most for a world where most Information is in forms Information is written OTHER than written © 2011 Marc Prensky What’s the role of technology? © 2011 Marc Prensky Technology’s role is TO SUPPORT THE PARTNERING PEDAGOGY (i.e. students teaching themselves with their teachers’ coaching and guidance) © 2011 Marc Prensky Technology DOES NOT and CANNOT SUPPORT the pedagogy of lecturing and telling (“direct instruction”) except in the most minimal of ways: i.e. pictures and videos Gibralter If a teacher is lecturing or telling, adding technology to a classroom can actually HINDER engagement and learning! © 2011 Marc Prensky Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops May 4, 2007 LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader not only found a way around it but also posted step-by-step instructions on the Web for others to follow (which they did). … So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall, joining a handful of other schools around the country that adopted one-to-one computing programs and are now abandoning them as educationally empty — and worse. © 2011 Marc Prensky my second message is There is a key PREREQUISITE to adding and using technology: © 2011 Marc Prensky BEFORE technology can really help learning… © 2011 Marc Prensky Teachers must their pedagogy… © 2011 Marc Prensky To PARTNERING © 2011 Marc Prensky A manual for switching to partnering Yes, our teachers need to be using the latest tools… © 2011 Marc Prensky NEW TOOLS • • • • • • • • • • Sped-up video Picture Search IM/texting Blogs Wikis Wikipedia Podcasting Phone polling Social Nets Handhelds • • • • • • • • • • P2P You Tube Web 2.0 (Participatory) Web 3.0 (Semantic) Augmented Reality Phone cameras Phone videos GPS Games & Simulations MoSoSo © 2011 Marc Prensky But only in the right context i.e. in support of the Partnering Pedagogy © 2011 Marc Prensky Step 1: Change to the Partnering Pedagogy Step 2: Let kids use the technology to take off! © 2011 Marc Prensky We need to Focus Professional Development on CHANGING PEDOGAGY first And only then on technology tools Technology is for the students to use NOT the teachers And when the students do use the tools, we should have © 2011 Marc Prensky REALLY HIGH EXPECTATIONS © 2011 Marc Prensky For what they can do © 2011 Marc Prensky Mabry Middle School Video: Adoption 10 Things Today’s Students Want © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 1. They want to be respected, trusted, and have their opinions valued and count © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 2. They want to follow their own interests and passions © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 3. They want to create © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 4. They want to use the tools of their time © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 5. They want to work with their peers on group work and projects (with ways to prevent slackers from getting a free ride) © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 6. They want to express and share their opinions © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 7. They want to make decisions and share control © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 8. They want to connect with their peers, both in class and around the world © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 9. They want to cooperate and compete with each other © 2011 Marc Prensky 10 Things Today’s Students Want 10. They want an education that is not just relevant, but REAL © 2011 Marc Prensky We need to see our students in a more positive way © 2011 Marc Prensky A New Metaphor © 2011 Marc Prensky Our students are ROCKETS! © 2011 Marc Prensky Our students are ROCKETS! • They go at high speed • They are headed to places unknown • They are highly volatile • They can’t be controlled precisely • They need good programming, the right fuel and a good payload • They may require mid-course corrections They have an enormous potential payoff! © 2011 Marc Prensky And that makes today’s teachers ROCKET SCIENTISTS! (who knew!) © 2011 Marc Prensky What fuel best motivates today’s kids to learn? © 2011 Marc Prensky The Environment Sports Motorcycles Space Music The Internet People Medicine Coins Singing Programming Dance History Writing Nature Business Animals © 2011 Marc Prensky “Learning [and certainly engagement] comes from passion, not discipline” – —Nicholas Negroponte © 2011 Marc Prensky Learning from passion lasts a lot longer! © © 2011 2003 Marc Marc Prensky Prensky The new mantra: “Passion-based Learning” © © 2011 2003 Marc Marc Prensky Prensky FIRST Robotics Humanoid Robot Programming Competitions Dimension M Math Competitions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFsMIsuKSo Do our teachers know their students’ passions? © 2011 Marc Prensky Not enough! © 2011 Marc Prensky What percent of teachers know the passion of each of their students? Most teachers would say less than 20 percent © 2011 Marc Prensky What percent of students think all their teachers know their passion? Almost none © 2011 Marc Prensky What percent of students WANT their teachers to know their passion? All of them © 2011 Marc Prensky My third message is Encourage PASSION-BASED LEARNING If tomorrow every teacher asked every kid © 2011 Marc Prensky “What are you passionate about?” © 2011 Marc Prensky And wrote it down and acted on it (to connect with students and individualize instruction) © 2011 Marc Prensky We would all be light years ahead © 2011 Marc Prensky If we want our kids to be the best in the world, we don’t need to… Test them to death. We need to… Always put People and Passion before Classes and Content “I used to teach my subject; now I teach my students.” --the best teachers Now let me suggest A better way to think about technology: Nouns vs. Verbs © 2011 Marc Prensky A better way to think of technology: Verbs (Skills) Presenting Nouns (Tools) Powerpoint Flash Communicating Texting Twitter Email Learning Wikipedia You ???? Tube Stay the same Change rapidly © 2011 Marc Prensky VERBS Stay the same • Thinking critically • Presenting logically • Communicating • Decision Making • Being rigorous • Understanding Context • Persuading © 2011 Marc Prensky NOUNS Change • Books Videos • BlackboardsElectonic Boards • OverheadsPPTFlash • Clickersmobile phones • LaptopsNetbooks • Mobile PhonesiPhones • FaceBookTwitter? © 2011 Marc Prensky Ideally, our students should be using the best, most up-to-date nouns (tools) for each verb (skill) © 2011 Marc Prensky Students need the latest/best way: To network To communicate To present To calculate TO LEARN © 2011 Marc Prensky Don’t overinvest In any one noun (tool) © 2011 Marc Prensky If many of our best teachers say: “I would never use another textbook to teach.” – A model teacher © 2011 Marc Prensky If many of our students say: “I never use my textbooks to learn.” – Many students © 2011 Marc Prensky Is a textbook the right noun to be using? © 2011 Marc Prensky Or should we be putting our limited funds into more appropriate nouns for the same verbs? © 2011 Marc Prensky Technology is becoming more and more DISPOSABLE and will soon need to change every year! © 2011 Marc Prensky More and more teachers know these things Many are already changing But some don’t know how, and are afraid to try © 2011 Marc Prensky OUR JOB IS TO HELP THEM © 2011 Marc Prensky HOW SHOULD teachers use technology tools? © 2011 Marc Prensky “A lot of teachers think they make a PowerPoint and they’re so awesome!” -- a (female) high school junior © 2011 Marc Prensky “But it’s just like writing on the blackboard!” -- a (female) high school junior © 2011 Marc Prensky “THE PRENSKY APOSTASY” (The stress-reducing bit) © 2011 Marc Prensky It’s important that teachers DON’T WASTE THEIR TIME Learning to Create With New Tools, (unless they want to) © 2011 Marc Prensky because… © 2011 Marc Prensky The students can do that! (and they want to) © 2011 Marc Prensky “Don’t try to keep up with the technology -- you can’t” – A 15 year old girl © 2011 Marc Prensky “You’ll only look stupid.” – A 15 year old girl © 2011 Marc Prensky RULE #1 Teachers should never use the technology FOR their students! © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2011 Marc Prensky 3D PRINTER © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2011 Marc Prensky The new context for education is that We all live in an era of accelerating © 2011 Marc Prensky Technology is getting better every day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIOIM6hHBk Our students are fast becoming… © 2011 Marc Prensky mobile mobiles © 2011 Marc Prensky Technology is… © 2011 Marc Prensky Moving like an out-ofcontrol roller coaster © 2011 Marc Prensky Our pedagogy is… © 2011 Marc Prensky …in need of renewal © 2011 Marc Prensky BUT DON’T WORRY! © 2011 Marc Prensky I’ve written a book to help you © 2011 Marc Prensky Corwin, March 2011 © 2011 Marc Prensky And… © 2011 Marc Prensky Our students can help! © 2011 Marc Prensky Education is NO LONGER something we can do TO students © 2011 Marc Prensky Today, we have to with In order to educate them © 2011 Marc Prensky Engaging With Students Talk with them © 2011 Marc Prensky No one asked! © 2011 Marc Prensky With technology, we can do: Old things in old ways Old things in new ways New things in new ways = INNOVATION © 2011 Marc Prensky Can people’s behavior change? © 2011 Marc Prensky YES if they are given the right motivation © 2011 Marc Prensky The Five Stages of Educators and Technology © 2011 Marc Prensky 1. Hiding © 2011 Marc Prensky 2. Panic © 2011 Marc Prensky 3. Acceptance © 2011 Marc Prensky 4. Comfort © 2011 Marc Prensky 5. Power © 2011 Marc Prensky © 2011 Marc Prensky To get the slides: email: [email protected] web site www.marcprensky.com © 2011 Marc Prensky