Keynote notes:   [Who spoke?]

Book review What was Bad for you is now Good for you - Neuroplasticity.

 

Never been a time when digital natives have not been surrounded by electronics.

 

Which cells are wired into the kids neuronetrick is determined by what they do.

 

Digital kids process the same information that we do, but in a different way.

 

Checkout the Human bRAIN Project.

 

People use fMRIs to view what part of the brain is being used for specific processes.

 

Scientific American issue that dealt with Teenage brains.

 

Visual cortex today is 15% larger than it was 15 years ago.

 

Today's students are wired for 30% of learnin to be through visual, vs. 3% written.

 

87% of our studdents are visual or visual kinesthetic because they are wired for visual from birth. Kids are not wired for text. Orange text is read the best... Black text is read the least.

 

Because of the constant digital bombardment we need to understand that kids today are wired differently than we were.

 

1. New information has to be connected to old information.

2. What kids bring to the classroom determine what, when, and how they will learn. Kids need to see how things work. (Howard Gardiner's Frames of Mind)

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4. Quality Reinforcement - Tell kids what they did right and make a suggestion to improve.

 

In Search of_______________ Inside the teenage Brain http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/teachers/Summer05/RoseMaryMcClain/TeenBrain.pdf

 

George Lucas website Edutopia

 

Teaching for Tomorrow by ted McCain 80 pages about how to address the high acountability of standards and teach students at the same time.

 

Committed Sardine Blog thecommitedsardine.net

 

ijukes@mindspring.com to add the blog.

 

First session:

1. Great point - We need to teach our students how to use information. They know technology - we need to teach them how to use the information.

 

2. Information in World is flat has changed 70% in the two years since publishing.

 

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The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladstone's book about progress: Things that will happen in the next five years, where will they be in those five years. -- Will our schools change or will they stay the same?

 

21st century literacies, fluencies. We pay lipservice to them, but we don't actually teach them.

 

Typically a state has 13,000 standards that would need 12,000 hours to teach, we are in a system that gives us 8,000 hours.

 

Book: TeleCosm by George Gilder

 

Infowhelm by Richard Saul Winston

 

 

Swarm or Next by Michael Chrichton

 

Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain