Tomorrow's Learners Today

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Tomorrow's Learners Today Brain Gain Session May
9, 2006 Kevin Driscoll Prospect Hill Academy
Charter School
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Tomorrow's Learners Today Overview
0. Who am I? 1. MySpace is good for kids 2.
Plagiarism in a cut'n'paste culture 3. Leveraging
technology vs. privelege 4. What's next?
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Tomorrow's Learners Today Looking at PHA

• PHA's Upper School is grades 6 12
• Computer Science is required for 6 9
• Advanced CS is an elective for 10 12
• Highly diverse (ethnicity and income)
• Many first generation Americans

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Tomorrow's Learners Today MySpace

• Meta-social environment, parallel ecosystem
• Integral to high school social lives
• More common than IM or email

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Tomorrow's Learners Today MySpace

• Building identity
• Developmentally appropriate
• Absolute control of one's appearance
• Experimentation, exploration
• Existential need fulfilled

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Tomorrow's Learners Today Originality?

• Fundamentally different understanding
• Hip-hop and punk as pop appropriation
• Cut'n'paste is powerful!
• Someone else said it better.

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Tomorrow's Learners Today Empowerment

• Many PHA students without PCs, Internet
• Barriers to access / institutions of power
• Private information perpetuates privilege
• Control over one's expression via text
• Educate a student empower a family

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Tomorrow's Learners Today What's next?

• When does CS stop being Science?
• Supporting parents, training teachers
• Spending our money effectively

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