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• Students are the best vehicles for passing on
  ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be
  molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men
  to the shape of reality as they find it in
  villages and hills of China or in ghettos and
  suburbs of America.
• Theodore H. White, In Search of History

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Welcome

• What was the thing that got you personally
  hooked into technology?

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Outcomes

• Understand the learning needs of the Digital
  Natives in our classrooms
• Identify strategies and action steps to
  incorporate into existing lessons to support
  student learning needs
• Develop and/or refine student project assignments

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Digital Natives
• Research on the Digital Classroom

• Engaging games
• Evaluation
• CUE Student Showcase sharing
• Student project work time

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Assumptions

• Level of engagement affects student achievement
• Student learning needs have changed as the world
  has changed
• Technology can be an effective tool that creates
  engaging learning environments and thus improve
  student engagement

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Digital Natives Jigsaw

• Read article
• Underline areas of interest
• Put a question mark next to areas you have a
  question about
• Put an exclamation point next to areas you think
  are vitally important
• Circle an item that youd like to share out to
  the group

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Digital Natives

• Based on your knowledge of the students you work
  with, what Digital Native learning preference do
  you perceive as being most important?
• Multi-tasking
• Instant gratification
• Graphics before text
• Non-linear access to information
• Game format of content
• Networking with peers

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Research Base

• Piaget developmental theory
• Marzanos analysis of classroom instructional
  strategies that affect student achievement
• Gardners theory of multiple intelligences

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Instructional Strategies that Affect Student
Achievement
(Marzano, 2002)
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Research Base

• Gardners theory of multiple intelligences
• Verbal-linguistic intelligence
• Logical-mathematical intelligence
• Spatial intelligence
• Musical intelligence
• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
• Interpersonal intelligence
• Intrapersonal intelligence
• Naturalist intelligence

Silver, Strong, Perini, 2000
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Brain Research

• Attention
• Novelty
• Intensity
• Movement
• Sustained attention
• Meaning
• Emotion

• Habituation
• Repetition of stimulus
• Perceptual filtering

Patricia Wolfe. Brain Matters Translating
Research into Classroom Practice.
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From the Research

• Students learn better from words and pictures
  than from words alone
• Students learn better when extraneous words,
  pictures, and sounds are excluded
• Design strategies target specific populations
• Learners with low knowledge of the content
• Visual learners

Doolittle, 2001
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Research on PowerPoint

• Negative Impact
• Inappropriate bells and whistles
• Too much text per slide
• Reading slides to audience
• Limited information on slide
• Presentation becomes the lesson no room for
  improvisation

• Positive Impact
• Oral presentation provides detail and expansion
• Graphics illustrate key concepts
• Animation and sound focus the learner on key
  information
• Ability to build in engagement opportunities

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Selection of Graphics

• Migration
• If you are trying to ensure that ALL students
  understand the concept of migration, what would
  be the most effective graphic representation you
  could provide?
• What search terms might help you find that ideal
  graphic?

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Migration
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Selection of Graphics

• Formula
• If you are trying to ensure that ALL students
  understand the concept of a formula, what would
  be the most effective graphic representation you
  could provide?
• What search terms might help you find that ideal
  graphic?

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Formula
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Complex Games

• Continuous decision making
• Immediate feedback
• Mastering increasingly complex skills
• Important choices
• Rewards for achievement
• Attempting new strategies
• Learning from errors
• Adapting to the players skills
• Collaborating with other participants

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Reflection

• How should this information about digital native
  learning needs impact the way we design learning
  activities for students?

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Online Evaluation

• http//oms.sbcss.k12.ca.us/ ctap_evaluation/

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CUE Student Showcase

• Student projects
• What was shared?
• What learnings did the students experience?
• What learnings did you (the teacher) experience?
• What needs to be incorporated into student
  projects as we move forward?

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• Everyone knows "content is king," but the
  audience is the empire.
• Scott Sigler, SNP Communications

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Student Project Work Time

• Pair up with partner
• Analyze project according to checklist
• Brainstorm ways to
• Increase student engagement
• Improve understanding of content
• Adapt the product for ongoing student use

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Citations

• American Psychological Association. Monitor on
  Psychology. April 2002. lthttp//apa.org/
  monitor/apr02/tech.html gt.
• Doolittle, P. (2001). Multimedia Learning
  Empirical Results and Practical Applications.
  lthttp//www.ipfw.edu/as/tohe/2001/Papers/
  doo.htmgt
• Marzano, R, Pickering, D, and Pollock, J. (2001).
  Classroom Instruction That Works Research-Based
  Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement.
  Alexandria ASCD.
• Piaget, J. (1969). The Mechanisms of Perception.
  London Rutledge Kegan Paul.

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Citations

• Prensky, Marc. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital
  Immigrants. lthttp//www.marcprensky.com/
  writinggt.
• Silver, H., Strong, R., Perini, M. (2000). So
  Each May Learn. Alexandria ASCD.
• Wolfe, P. (2001). Brain Matters Translating
  Research into Classroom Practice. Alexandria
  ASCD.