Technology in the classroom Using the digital natives

Technology in the classroom Using the digital natives natural skills to their own advantage www. youtube. com/watch? v=No. VW 62 mw. SQQ

What is a digital native? • Marc Prenski coined the term digital native in his work Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants published in 2001. • A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.

They were “born"with a cell phone in their hands.

What does the digital native have to offer your classroom? • The digital don’t “billion take notes from Manynatives of these the whiteboard, they take photos of it. roaming photojournalists” are • According to a national ad campaign by going to be your Sprint “We can share every second in data dressed as pixels, a billion roaming students. . . photojournalists, uploading the human experience. . . ”

How are the kids affected? • The kids in your classrooms will most likely benefit and suffer from their digital beginnings. • The down side is that they will be distracted by their cell phones and digital devices like tablets, laptops, game boys, and psp’s…. • But, the up side is that they will be comfortable using those devices!

So how do we use their skills to their advantage? • Phones, tablets, laptops, psp’s all have one thing in common now days…Digital cameras! • Lets put those cameras to work for us instead of against us. Lets get the kids outside to use those cameras.

This is Bret. His friend Connor picked this moment to use his cell phone camera to capture a moment.

This was taken by a 4 th grade student. Our assignment was “Girls in motion”

Hiking, Biking, running, walking, all make for good fun, good exercise and good photos.

One of our 4 rd grade students found this image while on a walk with her mom.

Camera phone Ideas… • Ask your students to take action pictures of each other at recess • Get them to photograph four corners of the block they live on while walking with their parents • Have the students use their phones/cameras on a photo walk. Offer prizes for the best photo. • Have a photo treasure / scavenger hunt. Have them run around the school getting photos of different areas or people. First one back with all the right images WINS !!

• Have your students photograph an event or activity and post it to places like facebook, flicker, photobucket, or their school web site. The possibilities are endless. • The idea is to get the digital natives back into the wild, taking their digital expertise with them and reporting back to you , the teacher, with their photos digitally stored, and their heart rates elevated.