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This is a great video about children asking if their teachers are prepared to teach them about technolgy 

Thanks Sharon, I thought that it was a great video too, and I liked the kids eyes and faces he made! haha I didn't even know he was pointing to a place in Canada, good job picking up on that !

Are we prepared to teach the "Digital Natives"? This is such a cute video I couldn't help but share. The young boy asks a very important question- are we preparing our students to enter the digital world?

A great and easy-to-read article for future teachers. Also has a good chart of what is permitted and what is not permitted!

I like this source. Good find!

This is a great article on what our students, the "Digital Natives" can teach us about technology! I have highlighted what I found to be the most interesting and insightful quotes from the article!

Such a fun activity for 2nd grade students, especially around Halloween!! Students learn all about bats so that they can convince their teachers to turn the classrooms into bat caves! Each pair creates a slide about bats that is put into a slideshow to show the teachers!

Getty Images While quick online access to images, footage and music may be second nature to us now, just a decade ago it was almost unimaginable. We were the first company to license imagery online - and continue to drive the industry forward. Our goal is to inspire communicators - and give them the tools to create inspiring work of their own.

I believe that's why they don't sing it at restaurants....

Yes! We can sing it in a classroom, at a party, or any other PRIVITE setting...However, on TV, in a public setting, in a movie, etc...someone has to pay!

This website is a wonderful resource for any teacher. It provides links to guide the teacher in fair use laws, suggests ways to teach about copyright laws, and provides a link to copyright-free images! It's really a one -stop-shop for everything copyright.

So in all your readings of digital natives, here's a real life example. Honestly, I'm a little terrified....

A day in the life of a digital native. 

I saw a teacher use images of butterflies from this website for a first grade lesson on symmetry; they were printed in black and white and the students were asked to color them in using symmetrical colors--they were beautiful!!

Actually here is the link for the already gray-scale and black-and-white butterflies that are used for coloring: http://www.butterflyutopia.com/butterfly_coloring_page.html

This website has some pretty cool infographics....it's also biased against the SOPA bill (a bill in Congress which could have an impact on internet use in the US), so I figured that even if it was a biased website it touched on two things we've discussed in class

You should read this when you get a chance.  We haven't talked a lot about bullying and the way technology contributes.

Helpful blog of a technology teacher with tips, lesson plans, and many great resources! 

This is a great site to look for tips/lesson plans!

A great video that shows the extent to which students today are digital natives.

Good find, Sharon. I think this really adds to the metaphor that digital natives are "native speakers" of technology. Much like native speakers of a language can use complex grammar without thinking about it or knowing the labels that linguists place on it, digital natives are easily using complex technology oblivious to all the research the "digital immigrants" are doing to try to understand it.

Always determine if the use of multimedia is appropriate to a particular activity

A Must Read!  Love the sarcasm about the way people see all new technology as a revolution. I laughed out loud.

Part 2 of the Prensky's 2001 articles on Digital Natives. This one focuses on scientific evidence to back up what he said in part one. It also includes this interesting quote about the attention span of digital natives, which seems to contradict other research on multi-tasking: "Their attention spans are  not short for games, for example, or for anything else that actually interests them. As a result of their experiences Digital Natives crave interactivity-an immediate response to their each and every action. Traditional schooling provides very little of this compared to the rest of their world (one study showed that students in class get to ask a question every 10 hours). So it generally isn't that Digital Natives can't pay attention, it's that they choose not to."

This is a terrific quick review of the creative commons and copyright that might be helpful before the quiz tomorrow!