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

Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and

ubiquity are the not the same as actually knowing something.

-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 EdisonGenius 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

Analog vs. DigitalActivity Analog Digital

“I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors.”

-James Caballero, CAIP Quarterly