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Overview""This book is a must-read for any educator who wants to successfully work with the digital generation, because it is so practical and filled with ideas to engage 21st-century students."" -Ian Jukes, Author of Teaching the Digital Generation ""A truly great and inspiring book. My students are a testament that partnering does work."" -Randon Ruggles, Teacher FAIR School, Minneapolis, MN ""Finally someone has written a book for teachers that goes beyond pedagogy and philosophy, giving teachers something they can use on Monday morning!"" -Sandy Fivecoat, CEO WeAreTeachers ""The good news: teachers don't have to be masters of technology to master the 21st-century classroom. Prensky has developed a map for a new era of teaching and learning that educators will find a breeze to navigate, and well worth the trip!"" -Jonathan Ben-Asher, Principal Henry and Wrightstown Elementary Schools, Tucson, AZ A new paradigm for teaching and learning in the 21st century! Students today are growing up in a digital world. These ""digital natives"" learn in new and different ways, so educators need new approaches to make learning both real and relevant for today's students. Marc Prensky, who first coined the terms ""digital natives"" and ""digital immigrants,"" presents an intuitive yet highly innovative and field-tested partnership model that promotes 21st-century student learning through technology. Partnership pedagogy is a framework in which: Digitally literate students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media Teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and ""getting things done"" With numerous strategies, how-to's, partnering tips, and examples, Teaching Digital Natives is a visionary yet practical book for preparing students to live and work in today's globalized and digitalized world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marc R. PrenskyPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc Imprint: Corwin Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9781412975414ISBN 10: 1412975417 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 20 May 2010 Recommended Age: 0 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAbout the Author Introduction: Our Changing World: Technology and Global Society What Today’s Students Want Partnering and Twenty-first Century Technology REAL, Not Just Relevant Motivation Through Passion Teaching for the Future The Road to a Pedagogy of Partnering 1. Partnering: a Pedagogy for the New Educational Landscape Moving Ahead How Partnering Works Establishing Roles and Mutual Respect Getting Motivated to Partner With Your Students 2. Moving to the Partnership Pedagogy Seeing Your Students Differently Setting Up Your Classroom to Facilitate Partnering Choosing Your Partnering “Level”: Basic, Directed, Advanced Technology and Partnering: Nouns vs. Verbs Partnering and The Required Curriculum Taking Your First (or Next) Steps into Partnering 3. Think ”People and Passions” rather than “Classes and Content” Learn your students’ interests and passions Living Out the Partnering Roles More Ideas 4. Always be REAL (not Just Relevant) A New Perspective Making Our Subjects REAL More Ways to Make Things REAL Always Think “Future” 5. Planning: Content to Questions, Questions to Skills Using Guiding Questions Focus on the appropriate verbs 6. Using Technology in Partnering Technology is the Enabler Technology and Equity: To Each His or Her Own Let the Students Use All Technology Using the Appropriate Nouns (Tools) for the Guiding Questions and Verbs 7. Understanding the “Nouns,” or Tools 8. Let Your Students Create A real, World Audience Aim High / Raise the bar 9. Continuous Improvement Through Practice and Sharing Improving Through Iteration Improving Through Practice Improving Through Sharing More Ways to Help Yourself Improve 10. Assessment in the Partnership Pedagogy Useful Assessment: Beyond Summative and Formative Assessing Students’ Progress Assessing Teachers’ Progress Assessing Administrators’ Progress Assessing Parents’ Progress Assessing Schools’ Progress Assessing Our Nation’s Progress, and the World’s Conclusion: The (Not Too Distant) Future of Education What Should A New Curriculum Be?: Essential Twenty-first Century Skills Using the Partnership Pedagogy With New Curricula Creating Schools With Partnering In Mind Toward a Twenty-first Century Education for All IndexReviewsMarc Prensky assimilates teaching, learning, and technology into a brilliant how-to for 21st-century teachers and students. This book will set the educational preparation world on its heels with a compelling argument for positive change. -- Lawrence L. Smith, Professor of Elementary Education 20091109 Marc Prensky's introduction of the partnering concept for teaching and learning is brilliant in its simplicity. The real power of Teaching Digital Natives is that the author has carefully defined and redefined the roles of teachers, learners, and parents with concrete examples and practical hints. I found myself anticipating each 'practical tips' box with excitement. Finally someone has written a book for teachers that goes beyond pedagogy and philosophy, giving teachers something they can use on Monday morning! -- Sandy Fivecoat, CEO 20091117 Prensky takes the task of marshalling 21st-century technologies for classroom instruction to a practical level that teachers can both understand and apply immediately. The concept of partnering and allowing both teachers and students to capitalize on their strengths clarifies the issue for educators. The good news: teachers don't have to be masters of technology to master the 21st-century classroom. Prensky has developed a new map for a new era of teaching and learning that educators will find a breeze to navigate, and well worth the trip! -- Jon Ben-Asher, Principal 20091117 Marc Prensky's understanding of how school-age digital natives learn underpins his prescient 'pedagogy of partnering.' He looks to the learner as the first consideration in the educational equation. The insightful advice and gentle guidance Marc provides classroom teachers directly assist them in moving powerful digital tools into the right hands!their students'! Marc's understanding that the pedagogy of partnering is built on a relationship of co-learning is fundamental to the 21st-century classroom. This book looks to the future with an urgent spirit of possibility and promise! -- David Engle, Superintendent 20091117 In Teaching Digital Natives, Prensky laments the fact that many educators today think students have short attention spans. He points out that although this may be true in the context of school, most students concentrate just fine on things that interest them. The book then explains to educators how to make school an interesting place for students with a partnering pedagogy. -- Lisa Nielsen, Educator, Speaker, Author 20091117 This book is a must-read for anyone interested in school reform and 21st-century learning. -- James Paul Gee, Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies 20091118 Core curriculum, 21st-century skills, rigor, and methodology are outlined in a way all educators can appreciate and implement. Teaching Digital Natives is a must for all educators who strive to meet the emerging demands of our profession. -- Jere Vyverberg, Superintendent 20091118 A truly great and inspiring book. Teaching Digital Natives is required reading for educators who want to reach out and engage students in their classrooms. -- Randon Ruggles, Teacher 20091118 Teaching Digital Natives is a must-read book for those of us who use technology, those who need more details about why we must use technology in our teaching, and for all teachers of teachers to use as a crucial text in their classes. -- Ted Nellen, Teacher 20091118 Loved, loved, loved it! -- Amber Teamann, Title I Technology Facilitator 20091118 This book is a must-read for any educator who wants to successfully work with the digital generation. -- Ian Jukes, Author of Teaching the Digital Generation 20091118 Author InformationMarc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, futurist, visionary, and inventor in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books and over 60 articles on education and learning, including multiple articles in Educational Leadership, Educause, Edutopia, and Educational Technology. Marc’s presentations around the world challenge and inspire audiences by opening up their minds to new ideas and approaches to education. One of his critically important perspectives is to look at education through the eyes of the students—during his talks, he interviews hundreds of students every year. Marc’s professional focus has been on reinventing the learning process, combining the motivation of student passion, technology, games, and other highly engaging activities with the driest content of formal education. He is the founder of two companies: Games2train, an e-learning company whose clients include IBM, Bank of America, Microsoft, Pfizer, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Florida’s and Los Angeles’s Virtual Schools; and Spree Learning, an online educational games company. Marc is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between games and learning, and was called by Strategy+Business magazine “that rare visionary who implements.” He has designed and built over 50 software games in his career, including worldwide,multiuser games and simulations that run on all platforms, from the Internet to cell phones. MoneyU (www.moneyu.com), his latest project, is an innovative, engaging, and effective game for teaching financial literacy to high school and college students. Marc is also the creator of www.spreelearninggames.com and www.socialimpactgames.com.His products and ideas are innovative, provocative, and challenging, and they clearly show the way of the future. The NewYork Times,The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,TIME, Fortune, and The Economist have all recognized Marc’s work. He has appeared on FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS’s Computer Currents, the Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations, and the BBC. Marc also writes a column for Educational Technology. He was named as one of training’s top “New Breed of Visionaries” by Training magazine and was cited as a “guiding star of the new parenting movement” by Parental Intelligence Newsletter. Marc’s background includes master’s degrees from Yale, Middlebury, and Harvard Business School (with distinction). He has taught at all levels, from elementary to college. He is a concert musician and has acted on Broadway. He spent six years as a corporate strategist and product development director with the Boston Consulting Group and worked in human resources and technology on Wall Street. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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