iGeners are almost universally plugged in. Ear buds hang from backpacks, and cell phones are stuffed into every pocket. Instant communication has replaced listening to messages, streaming video has replaced waiting for television shows to start, Xboxes have replaced Ataris, digital images have replaced negatives, and high-speed connections have replaced dial-up modems.
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Digitally Speaking / Enhancing and Amplifying Pedagogy with Digital Tools - 0 views
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iGeners aren’t always the best students, however! Working quickly instead of carefully, they infosnack their way through class, flitting from instant experience to instant experience. Reading deeply, considering multiple perspectives and interacting with others in meaningful ways is pushed aside in a race for immediate gratification.
Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
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"We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
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Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
iPads for Learning - Getting Started - 0 views
YouTube - ISTE 2011 Opening Keynote: Dr. John Medina (full-length) - 0 views
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Start at 30 minutes in for Medina - Brain Rules Author
Importance of Physical Education in Our Daily Life - 0 views
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is recently supposed an important issue in our daily affairs. Physical education should be started from childhood education period. Body movement and gaming is the child's familliar works. He feels a huge amusement by gaming and running freedomly. He engages in gaming when he gets a few free moments.
Teaching the Essential Skills of the Mobile Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills explicitly lists communication and collaboration together in their Framework for 21st Century Learning.
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Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) reminded teachers, "Technology is not the emphasis. It's the tool to do thoughtful work." Apps will change. Operating systems, capabilities, and even devices change. However, if we focus on a core set of essential skills -- communication, collaboration, connection and creation -- and start to develop curricula that will benefit our students regardless of the technology, then we can truly embrace a mobile curriculum.
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