Classroom Solutions for Digital Students

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Classroom Solutions for Digital Students
Scott KinneyDirector, Discovery Educator Network
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Classroom Solutions for Digital Students
Scott KinneyNational Director, Discovery
Educator Network
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• A bit of trivia...

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Which age group has the highest percentage of its
members online?

• 12-17
• 25-29
• 30-34
• 40-44

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What percentage of public school students are
considered to be part of a racial or ethnic
minority group?

• 13
• 18
• 26
• 43

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One of the fastest growing websites in the world
and has visitors watching over 100 million videos
per day?

• Google
• YouTube
• Yahoo
• MySpace

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If registered users of this website were a
country, it would be larger than Germany, France
and the United Kingdom.

• Google
• YouTube
• Yahoo
• MySpace

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What is the percentage of students entering
school that speak a language other than English?

• 5
• 10
• 20
• 40

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• How can we support these trends?

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Students and Media

• Young people (8-18) today, spend an average of 6
  ½ hours a day with media
• 4 hours a day watching TV
• 2 ¼ hours with parents
• 1 ¾ listening to music
• 1 ½ doing physical activity
• Over an hour on the computer
• Under an hour doing homework
• They are exposed to the equivalent of 8 ½ hours
  of media a day
• 57 of teenagers online create content.
  (approximately 2 million teens)

Source A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. March
2005
Source AOL/DMS Teen Wired and Pew Internet
American Life Project.
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As They Get Older

• Whats in on Campus
• Spring 2005
• Drinking beer
• Drinking other alcohol
• Spring 2006
• Drinking beer iPods
• Drinking beer tied with Facebook.com
• Drinking other alcohol
• Text messaging

Source USA Today. June 8, 2006
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Meet Melanie
Photograph Shark. Discovery Communications,
Inc.. 2005. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006
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Meet Melanie
Video La guía máxima Tiburones. Discovery
Channel School. 2001. unitedstreaming. 25
February 2006 lthttp//www.unitedstreaming.com/gt
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What do we know about integrating media?

• but not just what we think

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Scientifically Proven

• Virginia Evaluation 2002This independent
  evaluation examined third and eighth grades
  students in two areas of study -- science and
  social studies. Improvement among experimental
  group students who received instruction aided by
  unitedstreaming showed a 12.6 average increase
  in achievement over control group students.
• Los Angeles Evaluation 2004This evaluation,
  conducted in the Los Angeles Unified School
  District, examined mathematics performance among
  6th and 8th grade students. Students who received
  instruction aided by unitedstreaming showed a 3
  to 5 average increase in achievement in math
  scores over the control group.

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Unparallel Access to Media
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Meet My Little Girl
Name Kayla Age 3 1/2 About Kayla Kayla is three
and is no longer satisfied with simply watching
Elmo and Dora. Instead, she wants to interact
with them, answer questions and guide them in
their journey.
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Tools to Interact
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Tools to Interact
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• the next step

create!
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• a student example

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• but all these resources can lead to a problem

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• but before we can provide content

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We Must Know Our Students
When a teacher tries to teach something to the
entire class at the same time, chances are,
one-third of the kids already know it one-third
will get it and the remaining third won't. So
two thirds of the children are wasting their
time. - Lilian Katz as quoted in Teaching Young
Children (1993)
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• Heres what we know

the way students interact with media is evolving
classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse
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• Diversity brings educational challenges, but also
  great opportunity!

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How People Learn

• A research-based synthesis consisting of 30 years
  of educational research indicates
• participation in social practice is a fundamental
  form of learning
• learning is increased by a diversity of cultural
  experience and community participation

Brown, Ann L, Cocking, Rodney R Bransford ,
John D. How People Learn Brain, Mind,
Experience, and School. Washington National
Academies Press, 2000.
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Social Practice In Action
a2b2c2
Pythagorean theorem
Vincent van Gogh
H2O2
Gordon Meade
Hydrogen Peroxide
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• so how do we support content development in the
  first language

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Meet Melanie
Photograph Shark. Discovery Communications,
Inc.. 2005. unitedstreaming. 25 February 2006
lthttp//www.unitedstreaming.com/gt
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Meet Melanie
Video La guía máxima Tiburones. Discovery
Channel School. 2001. unitedstreaming. 25
February 2006 lthttp//www.unitedstreaming.com/gt
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Meet Melanie
Video Ultimate Guide, The Sharks. Discovery
Channel School. 1998. unitedstreaming. 25
February 2006 lthttp//www.unitedstreaming.com/gt
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Meet Melanie
Video Ultimate Guide, The Sharks. Discovery
Channel School. 1998. unitedstreaming. 25
February 2006 lthttp//www.unitedstreaming.com/gt
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• Going back to what we know

the way students interact with media is evolving
classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse
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• We can no longer teach as we learned. We must
  combine the best of the old with the best of the
  new and plunge forward to meet the increasing
  demands of an ever-changing technological
  environment.

Linda Wells, Fifth Grade Teacher Cambridge
Elementary School San Antonio, Texas
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Classroom Solutions for Digital Students
Scott KinneyDirector, Discovery Educator Network