Pink has created a reference for us to consider right brain activities. Design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning. He says we should be more in tune with understanding Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (survival, security, belonging, ego, spirit). According to Pink, “Artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big-picture thinkers – will reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys”. Pink claims that we are in a “conceptual age."
- Disscusion Guide for Educators: AWNMforeducators.pdf
Video The Conceptual Age
About this Project
This project will include the following topics: Digital Tools that allow students and teachers to;
1. Design Digital Lessons;
2. Articulate Stories that support concepts;
3. Be a Symphony in synthesizing and comparing strands of ideas to create new elements of thought;
4. Understanding Meaning and opportunities to learn collaboratively through social networks;
5. Play through creativity;
6. and understand the importance of cyber citizenship when learning in a literacy 2.0 environment.
3.0 for 2008 - Newly Revised Edition Created by Karl Fisch
Introducing The Digital Native
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001
- Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
- They represent the first generations to grow up with technology.
- Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games. Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.
- Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
- Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they have always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now.
- But that assumption is no longer valid.
- Article by Prensky.pdf
Interview with David Lazear on Seven Ways of Knowing
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