Native learners prefer receiving info quickly from multiple multimedia sources while many teachers prefer slow and controlled release of info from limited sources.
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educational-origami - Understanding Digital Children - Ian Jukes - 0 views
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Native learners prefer processing pictures, sounds and video before text while many teachers prefer to provide text before pictures, sounds and video.
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Native learners prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun while many teachers prefer to teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests.”
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This is a wiki post summarizing some key points from "Understanding Digital Children" by Ian Jukes and Prensky's "Digital native and Digital immigrants". To me, this article supports Levin & Schrum (2009) when they claim, "Today's students are bored when they come to schools where they have to sit all day, usually listening to one person talking for extended periods of time, reading outdated textbooks, and being asked to study things they feel they have already learned by watching the Discovery or History channels or learned about from playing some of the incredible historical or science simulation games on their Xboxes or Play Stations" (p.30) The full articles are linked on this wiki post; they worth taking the time to read.
Conspiracy Code - 1 views
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Conspiracy Code is an adventure thriller designed to teach a full couse in American History. It is being developed hand in hand with K-12 educators, and will be available to all schools as an online course..
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This is a perfect example of a way students might be immersed in a online educational experience. That relates to our reading assignment because it highlights Web 2.0 use with students.
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