Digital+Learning

=__***Reactions to the videos on Digital Learning***__=


 * __Video #1- "Did you know?"__**
 * -interesting stats.
 * -95% of songs were not paid for last year
 * -total shift towards technology across all aspects of the world-politics, personal, business, etc.
 * -administrators must consider technology with their staff and students (discipline, etc.)
 * -face to face communication is becoming extinct
 * -'...blood cell...'

__**Video #2- "BushWise"**__
 * **Jeb Bush**
 * teach students at different paces (1980-Howard Gardner)
 * "digital revolution"
 * textbooks will eventually go away, lots of money spent on them yearly
 * our highschool has several classes with online textbooks only


 * **Bob Wise**
 * how do you pay? inner city schools (low performance)?
 * cost effective-example-online teachers/classes cover multiple classes
 * with current budget cuts, is this still feasible???
 * with online teaching, will this reduce the need for teachers???
 * reduce seat time....lose funding?

=**__Article #1: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants__**=

By **__Marc Prensky__**

“**// Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach //** .” - “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20 th century. - **// Digital Native: //** Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. = - **//Digital Immigrants://** Those of us who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them. =

// -Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language. // -To educate digital natives, we must change our methodology and content -Legacy vs. future content -Monkey Wrench

=**__ Article #2 : __**__*Five keys to unlock the 21st century *__=

=**__*The 5 Keys…__**=

**1. The Instant Communications Revolution** - linking people across the world

**2. The Swarm Revolution** -computer ships in almost every aspect of life (cars, golf balls, toilets, clothing, etc) **3. The Convergence Revolution** -the union of the Quantum Revolution, the Computer Revolution, the Internet Revolution and the Bimolecular Revolution.

**4. The Learning Revolution** -learning faster with digital technology and human research

**5. The Creative Revolution** -generating new ideas, solutions, and opportunities that will change our futures

= **__*The 11 steps to transform education*__** =

-we can communicate quickly/almost instantly, in different languages and across the world

 * //Discussion://** //What are the first three steps schools should make to capitalize// //best on the revolution in instant, global communications?//

-New Zealand: 11yrs ago made every school a charter school (10% have flourished)-only focused on administration, not in learning or the classroom
**//Discussion://** //Define six key ingredients needed to redesign our school system?//

-new technology and communication pave the way for more innovators
=== **//Discussion://** //My personal vision is to see New Zealand become an “educational Silicon Valley” — with a world leading export industry based on marrying the world’s best learning methods with the world’s best information and communications technology. What is your vision?6.// ===