Archive for March 10th, 2008

Top 100 Tools for Learning

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Top 100 Tools for Learning
In July 2007 Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, in Somerset, England asked 64 e-learning experts to list their top 10 productivity and teaching tools. A free PDF download version lists the tools by type and gives key information about each one.
The top ten most [...]

How to teach the Digital Native

Monday, March 10th, 2008

There is a challenge today that teacher’s must face … teaching the digital native. All of us, teachers, are digital immigrants. So how do we reach out to these kids? Here are some suggestions:
1. Change our presentation. Reach the kids by picking up the pace – go faster, less of the step-by-step teaching approach. Give [...]

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Occasionally I come across people who wonder “How kids can do that?” They see them working five windows of MSN, texting on the mobile phone, and homework at the same time. I know people wonder because I look at my own daughter in amazement. “How does she do that?”
Marc Prensky wrote an article in 2001 [...]