03217nam a2200277Ia 4500 306648 20180810021842.0 111214s2012 cau b 001 0 eng 2011048360 9781452230092 (pbk.) DLC DLC n-us--- LA217.2 .P68 2012 370.973 23 Prensky, Marc 265851 Local From digital natives to digital wisdom hopeful essays for 21st century learning Marc Prensky ; forward by Milton Chen. Thousand Oaks, California Corwin c2012. 1201 x, 227 pages illustrations 26 centimeters. Includes bibliographical references and index. What can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn<U+2019>t. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky<U+2019>s book of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers. His "bottom-up" vision is based on interviews with young people and includes their ideas about what they need from teachers, schools, and education. Also featured are easy-to-do, high-impact classroom strategies that help what he calls "digital natives" acquire "digital wisdom." This thought-provoking text is organized into two sections that address. Rethinking education. 21st century learning and technology in the classroom (including games, YouTube, and more) In addition to valuable knowledge, this compelling collection offers inspiration, new perspectives, and ideas that work. Our educational context has changed, and a new context demands new thinking. This book will broaden your mind, spark new insights regarding how and what you teach, and reshape your vision of 21st century education. Pt. 1, RETHINKING EDUCATION : -- 1. The Reformers Are Leaving Our Schools in the 20th Century -- 2. On Learning -- 3. Education as Rocket Science -- 4. Turning On the Lights -- 5. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants -- 6. The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native -- 7. Young Minds, Fast Times -- 8. Blame Our Young? Or Use Their Passion! -- 9. To Educate, We Must Listen -- 10. Bringing the Future to School: The Prensky Challenge -- 11. Open Letter to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- Questions for Reflection -- Pt. 2, 21st CENTURY LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM : -- 12. The Role of Technology in Teaching and the Classroom -- 13. Backup Education? -- 14. Simple Changes in Current Practices May Save Our Schools -- 15. The Longer View: Why YouTube Matters -- 16. Beyond the Lemonade Stand -- 17. Types of Learning and Possible Game Styles -- 18. On Being Disrespected -- 19. Let's Be "Digital Multipliers" -- 20. Search Versus Research -- 21. Simulation Nation -- 22. What Can You Learn From a Cell Phone? Almost Anything! -- 23. The True 21st Century Literacy Is Programming. Educational change United States. Local 90505 Education Effect of technological innovations on United States. 90399 Local Education Aims and objectives United States. 90399 Local 224987 224987 0 0 lc 0 LA_217_200000000000000__P68_2012 0 mbl 83941 12 12 20 2016-05-27 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 24.91 490829 0 LA217.2 .P68 2012 50000003241519 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:306648 6