Marc Prensky

Not all Digital Natives know how to use technology well. But almost all see digital technology as a fundamental part of their 21st c. life.

Don’t expect the pace of change to slow down; new technologies will be coming "faster...& faster and faster" http://owl.li/rLRjC 

Why, when the context of the world has changed so radically, do we still teach almost entirely for the world of the past?

Let's help our kids NOT just to “learn”, but TO BECOME GOOD & CAPABLE PEOPLE who succeed in the world. http://owl.li/rDZOR 

“Being educated” is now less dependent on courses, exams & degrees, & more on being smartly linked, worldwide, to resources & others.

Let’s stop duplicating the same teaching techniques we experienced as students in an age when they no longer work. #PRENSKYPERSPECTIVE

Technology, used well, enhances our kids’ minds & enables them to do many previously undoable, highly useful tasks. http://owl.li/rDZEZ 

All educators need 2 “tech buddies”—a colleague & a student who each know more about technology than they do. Consult them frequently.

Use the kids: At start of year, assign each student the task of finding the best online resources for one of the lessons you’ll be teaching.

To really educate kids, we must give them problems to which WE DON’T know the answer, and work WITH them to find solutions.

Have only one computer in your classroom? Appoint a different kid each period “Internet Link” to look things up as they arise & report.

The network is becoming the key source of education for all; educators are becoming coaches & guides to using it well & wisely.

No $$ for musical instruments but giving kids tablets? Have kids figure out how to make great music w/GarageBand. http://bit.ly/eUJXL7 

Changing WHAT we teach is even more important than changing HOW we teach. So much is useless to most kids (x for tests). It shouldn’t be.

Let’s stop duplicating the same teaching techniques we experienced as students, in an age when they no longer work. #PRENSKYPERSPECTIVE

Unless school technology enables students to do more, solve more difficult problems & make better decisions, it’s of little use.

Machines do not have—and cannot teach—respect, empathy and passion. Those remain humans’—and teachers’—jobs. #PRENSKYPERSPECTIVE

In a fast moving field like technology there are NO “best practices.” Only “good practices” & the need to continually invent better ones.

Technology provides tools (nouns) to do things (verbs). FOCUS ON THE VERBS & use the most up-to-date nouns you can. http://owl.li/rDYkO 

The future is arriving at an accelerating rate. Educators’ job is to prepare kids for that future, not for the past we lived in.