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"GROWN UP DIGITAL", How The Net Generation Is Changing Your World, Don Tapscott, 2009, pages 148
The School 2.0: Seven Tips For Educator
Empower Students to Collaborate
Here are seven strategies that will help you become a better teacher in this new digital age.
1) Do not throw technology in the classroom and hope for good things: Focus on the change in pedagogy, not technology. Learning 2.0 is about dramatically changing the relationship between a teacher and Students in the learning process. Get that right and use technology for a student focused, customized, collaborative learning environment.
2) Cut back lecturing: You do not have all the answers. Start asking students questions and listen to their answers. Listen to question students ask too. Let them discover the answer. Let them co-create a learning experience with you.
3) Empower students to collaborate: Encourage them to work with each other and show them how access the world of subject-matter experts available on the web.
4) Focus on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test: It is not what they know when they graduate that counts; it is their capacity and love for lifelong learning that is important. Do not worry if the kids forget the dates of key battles in history. They can look them up. Focus on teaching them how to learn not what to know.
5) Use technology to get to know each student and build self-passed, customized learning programs for them.
6) Design educational programs according to the eight norms: There should be choice, customization, transparency, integrity, collaboration, fun, speed and innovation in their experiences. Leverage the strengths of Net Gen culture and behaviours in project-based learning.
7) Reinvent yourself as a teacher, professor, or educator: You too can say "Now, I can hardly wait to get up in the morning to go to work"
1) Do not throw technology in the classroom and hope for good things: Focus on the change in pedagogy, not technology. Learning 2.0 is about dramatically changing the relationship between a teacher and Students in the learning process. Get that right and use technology for a student focused, customized, collaborative learning environment.
2) Cut back lecturing: You do not have all the answers. Start asking students questions and listen to their answers. Listen to question students ask too. Let them discover the answer. Let them co-create a learning experience with you.
3) Empower students to collaborate: Encourage them to work with each other and show them how access the world of subject-matter experts available on the web.4) Focus on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test: It is not what they know when they graduate that counts; it is their capacity and love for lifelong learning that is important. Do not worry if the kids forget the dates of key battles in history. They can look them up. Focus on teaching them how to learn not what to know.
5) Use technology to get to know each student and build self-passed, customized learning programs for them.6) Design educational programs according to the eight norms: There should be choice, customization, transparency, integrity, collaboration, fun, speed and innovation in their experiences. Leverage the strengths of Net Gen culture and behaviours in project-based learning.
7) Reinvent yourself as a teacher, professor, or educator: You too can say "Now, I can hardly wait to get up in the morning to go to work""GROWN UP DIGITAL", How The Net Generation Is Changing Your World, Don Tapscott, 2009, pages 148
