Teaching Digital Natives : Partnering for Real Learning

by Marc Prensky

• ISBN13: 9781412975414
• ISBN10: 1412975417
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-29
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Teaching Digital Natives presents teachers with an intuitive yet highly innovative and research-based partnership model designed to promote student learning through the use of technology. Emphasizing more on how students learn relevant skills as they use technology to 'œget things done' and less on the mastery of technology for technology's sake, Marc Prensky calls for a division of labor and cooperation between students, teachers, and administrators so that each group can take on the roles for which they are best suited. Each chapter focuses on how to empower students to learn a cluster of 21 st century skills while providing a variety of content-area and grade-level examples. The book illustrates: How digitally literate students can specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media How teachers can specialize in providing questions, context, quality, rigor, and individualized attention to students How administrators can support, organize and facilitate the process while meeting curriculum and standards requirements

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction: Our Changing World: Technology and Global Society

What Today's Students Want

Partnering and Twenty-first Century Technology

REAL, Not Just Relevant

Motivation Through Passion

Teaching for the Future

The Road to a Pedagogy of Partnering

Partnering: a Pedagogy for the New Educational Landscape

Moving Ahead

How Partnering Works

Establishing Roles and Mutual Respect

Getting Motivated to Partner With Your Students

Moving to the Partnership Pedagogy

Seeing Your Students Differently

Setting Up Your Classroom to Facilitate Partnering

Choosing Your Partnering "Level": Basic, Directed, Advanced

Technology and Partnering: Nouns vs. Verbs

Partnering and The Required Curriculum

Taking Your First (or Next) Steps into Partnering

Think "People and Passions" rather than "Classes and Content"

Learn your students' interests and passions

Living Out the Partnering Roles

More Ideas

Always be REAL (not Just Relevant)

A New Perspective

Making Our Subjects REAL

More Ways to Make Things REAL

Always Think "Future"

Planning: Content to Questions, Questions to Skills

Using Guiding Questions

Focus on the appropriate verbs

Using Technology in Partnering

Technology is the Enabler

Technology and Equity: To Each His or Her Own

Let the Students Use All Technology

Using the Appropriate Nouns (Tools) for the Guiding Questions and Verbs

Understanding the "Nouns," or Tools

Let Your Students Create

A real, World Audience

Aim High / Raise the bar

Continuous Improvement Through Practice and Sharing

Improving Through Iteration

Improving Through Practice

Improving Through Sharing

More Ways to Help Yourself Improve

Assessment in the Partnership Pedagogy

Useful Assessment: Beyond Summative and Formative

Assessing Students' Progress

Assessing Teachers' Progress

Assessing Administrators' Progress

Assessing Parents' Progress

Assessing Schools' Progress

Assessing Our Nation's Progress, and the World's

Conclusion: The (Not Too Distant) Future of Education

What Should A New Curriculum Be?: Essential Twenty-first Century Skills

Using the Partnership Pedagogy With New Curricula

Creating Schools With Partnering In Mind

Toward a Twenty-first Century Education for All

Index

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