student 2.0… can you hear me now? engaging 21 st century students lisa nimz, skokie school...
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Student 2.0…Can You Hear Me Now?
Engaging 21st Century Students
Lisa Nimz, Skokie School District 68Jerry Michel, Lincolnwood School District 74
“You don’t have any right to read my Facebook page! That’s like invading my
privacy!”
-Eighth Grader, Ironically Anonymous
“You want my status update? I'm about to hang
up on you.”
-Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney.com editor, when harassed (over the phone) by
a relative about not being on Facebook
Unlike oral, “living” speech, Socrates saw the inflexible
muteness of written language to be the doom of
the dialogic process, the heart of education.
-Maryanne Wolf, in Proust and the Squid
“The Internet culture facilitates a…permanent
adolescence that is profoundly anti-
intellectual.”
-Peter Cookson, board member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
“We are not only what we read; we are how we read.”
-Maryanne Wolf, author, Proust and the Squid
We teach in an increasingly wired world
In a land of IPads, Kindles, and texting
Can literacy compete with technology?
Perhaps, new technology simply provides new genres…
…that we will integrate in authentic ways as we learn from our students.
This is your brain on tech
Any questions?
How does technology shape literacy?
“Deep reading has become a chore”
Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
-Nicholas Carr, author ofThe Big Switch, Rewiring the World from Edison to Google
Growing Up with Harry Potter
2001: Sorcerer’s Stone 2010: Half Blood Prince
So, we aren’t getting smarter?
The paradox of the human brain and automaticity: we build vast, intricate circuits… and simultaneously forget that we are building them
What really matters?
Inside Einstein’s Brain with Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
Why myelin matters:Deep practice +Error recognition +Strategies to correct
=Expertise
development
If we are to learn along side our students, we must learn to use duct tape wisely
