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Noelle Kreider

A look at the technology culture divide | eSchoolNews.com - 11 views

  • Today’s students represent the first generation to grow up with this new technology.
  • While educators may see students every day, they do not necessarily understand their students’ habits, expectations, or learning preferences–this has resulted in a technology cultural divide.
  • Students are very comfortable with technology and generally become frustrated when policy, rules, and restrictions prevent them from using technology. 
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  • Educators must relinquish the idea of being all-knowing and replace that concept with an attitude of being a facilitator, knowing that the world of information is just a “click” away.
  • Traditional schools, generally staffed primarily with Digital Immigrants, often provide very little technology interaction compared to the digital world in which students are actually living.  Digital Natives can pay attention in class, but they choose not to pay attention, because in reality, they are bored with instructional methods that Digital Immigrants use.
  • Today’s Digital Native students have developed new attitudes and aptitudes as a result of their technology environment.  Although these characteristics provide great advantages in areas such as the students’ abilities to use information technology and to work collaboratively, they have created an imbalance between students’ learning environment expectations and Digital Immigrants’ teaching strategies and policies, which students find in schools today.
  • Teacher training programs in the area of technology will be paramount in the success of the Digital Native.
  • Twenty-first century educators must begin to answer these questions: Do the educational resources provided fit the needs and preferences of today’s learners?  Will linear content give way to simulations, games, and collaboration?  Do students’ desires for group learning and activities imply rethinking the configuration and use of space in classrooms and libraries?  What is the material basis of digital literacy? What is different in a digital age?  What are kids doing already and what could they be doing better, and more responsibly, if we learned how to teach them differently? Addressing these questions will contribute toward bridging the gap of the technology cultural divide and result in schools where all students have greater potential to achieve academically.
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    Article discussing the technology culture divide between students and their teachers and its implications for rethinking how we teach.
Noelle Kreider

MyCTAP! - California's K-12 EdTech Portal - 11 views

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    free online training and workshops, quick guides, and more
Noelle Kreider

CTAP Cybersafety Poster - 1 views

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    poster and resources related to identify safety, cyberbullying, cyber predators, piracy & plagiarism, inappropriate content, and social networks.
Noelle Kreider

NetSmartz.org - 1 views

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    Provides engaging activities, videos and more to teach elementary students and teens about internet safety. Includes free curriculum materials for teachers, school assembly presentations, and a wealth of info for parents.
Noelle Kreider

Online Textbooks - CK-12.org - 0 views

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    Currently providing open-content physics, biology, and math online texts
Noelle Kreider

WebNotes - Annotate the Web - 0 views

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    I love Diigo but would not recommend it for students because of the social networking aspect. WebNotes allows students to highlight and add sticky notes to webpages and then generate a pdf or html report or send the page via email or permalink.
Noelle Kreider

Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers - 0 views

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    listen to native speaker pronunciations, record pronunciations for your language, etc.
Noelle Kreider

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education - 3 views

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    create flash interactives you can then embed in your class page. templates include arcade game generator, flashcard generator, post it, fishbone, venn, timeline, jigsaw, etc.
Noelle Kreider

Annenberg Media List of Workshops and Courses - 0 views

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    Teachers can learn with computers too! Check out these wonderful online courses!
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    free online courses that address teaching strategies and needs of diverse learners. Arts, Education Theory and Issues, History and Social Studies , Literature and Language Arts , Mathematics, Science
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