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“Now that there is competition to traditional institutional forms for getting things done, those institutions will continue to exist, but their purchase on modern life will weaken as novel alternatives for group action arise.” Clay Shirkey "Here Comes Everybody"




Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott (Nov. 08)

School 2.0 - Seven Tips for Educators p.148

1. Don't throw technology into the classroom and hope for good things. Focus on the pedagogy and not the technology. Learning 2.0 is about drastically changing the relationship between a teacher and students in the learning process.

2. Cut back on lecturing. You don't have all the answers and besides broadcast learning doesn't work for this generation. Start asking students questions and listen to the answers. Let them co-create a learning experience with you.

3. Empower students to collaborate. Encourage them to work with each other and show them how to access the world of subject experts on the web.

4. Focus on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test. It's not what they know when they graduate that counts; it's their capacity and love for lifelong learning that's important.

5. Use technology to get to know each student and build self-pace customized learning programs for them.

6. Design educational programs according to the eight norms: there should be choice, customization, transparency, integrity, collaboration, fun, speed and innovation in their learning experiences. Leverage the strengths of Net Gen culture and behaviors with project-based learning.

7. Reinvent yourself as teacher, professor or educator. Now you too can say "I can't wait to get up and go to work in the morning."




http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1

Digital Media and Learning
McArthur Foundation home page

What if you could broadcast learning? article

Broadcast Learning: The Power of Network Learning By Miguel Guhlin
In Education World

From TED Talks: Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?