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Cultural literacy: Cultural literacy has always been a desired skill in teachers abroad and living in multiethnic domestic regions.

Socratic seminar:

Community engagement:

Information literacy: Seeing as how information literacy is considered integral to student success, schools have little use for teachers without the relevant skills.

Networking: A networking teacher is, ostensibly, an open teacher.

4 sense thinking is uncritical, episodic, and disjointed, but it is also powerful because it is taken for granted”. Thus whilst the past ten years have undoubtedly witnessed significant changes in the technological practices and predilections of children, young people and young adults, it would seem sensible to reconsider the status of the ‘digital native’ description as a prima facie account of young people’s lives in the early twenty- first century. In particular, there is a pressing need to develop and promote realistic understandings of young people and digital technology if information professionals (especially librarians, teachers and other information specialists) are to play useful and meaningful roles in supporting current generations of young people. Against this background the present paper now goes on to question the accuracy and primacy of the ‘digital native literature’ in reflecting the realities of young people’s actual engagements with digital media and technology. IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL NATIVE DISCOURSE We should first examine in closer detail the broad body of work that can be said to constitute the digital native literature1, particularly in terms of how the conditions, capabilities and consequences of young people’s technology use are portrayed. In this sense, there are a number of differing practices and dispositions that are associated with the digital native condition: i) The empowered di

An Empathetic Mentor

A Technology Harmonizer

It is no longer acceptable to teach only from a textbook, to rely on the same worksheets an methods year after year without at least questioning them and researching why they are the best resource available.  

 Powerpoint and Word are becoming antiquated as newer and more powerful presentation and editing suites become available to teachers.

This means having social media accounts and understanding how they are used, even if you don’t use them specifically for learning.

This student-centered focus also creates learning opportunities for the teacher to learn with students, developing their teaching and collaborative skills

One of the keys here is that we work at making the technology work (in the best way we can) so the lesson becomes about the learning instead of the management of machines.

Game mechanics

Peer-to-peer learning