ISTE - David Warlick: Cracking the Native Information Experience

Cracking the Native Information Experience
(Description) We know our students are natives to this new information landscape. But what is the code of their experience, and how do we hack it?
Handouts available at: http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=325

First off he sees that kids today have "No Ceiling" - that means that kids before today had limits and barriers . Today kids are networked, digital, abundant, and hard to contain so the question presents then is "what is school?" School once was where learning took place. Now though kids are learning everywhere. Kids used to be forced to learn via the textbook and teacher now they learn from each other. So, can we "Crack the Code" that kids put time, effort, learning into video games, and other tech stuff today?

Google has turned us into a Question and Answer culture. Before we never asked as many questions and the ones we did we often could not find those answers easily. Now we have those answers at our fingertips, literally in our mobile devices.

We have wanted to teach students the way we learned, but the landscape is considerably different now.

We need to now look at the opposing view of  teaching to them with how they already learn.

 
 
For example, can learning be fun? Look at a Scantron and ask "is this fun". NO but our kids are learning today because what they learn is fun to them.

 


One idea that he mentioned I called BLOG POPCORN!
It is a blog idea for notes (treat it like popcorn reading) each student is required to take notes for the day and then at the end of the lesson they write a blog post about it on the class site. Then at the bottom of the post they write one students name and that student is then required to do the next post.

Another interesting point he made was about scoring guides and rubrics. Looking at an example scoring guide about the Renaissance a project and creating such detail (i.e. 5 points for this, 10 points for that). What this does is that it eliminates QUESTIONS.

He uses a Barbed Wire picture as an example. He said to post the image and then say Nothing. - No prompting - kids would then begin to ask questions... what's the name, where is it, what is it used for?  Kids are tough often trained in needing step by step instructions for learning. For example if you ask them to write what they think about something they demand detail i.e. "how many pages should it be... etc"

He then left us with a few questions:

How am I daring my students to make "Mistakes" to feed the learning dialogue

How can I make my students learning ready

And lastly, Ask A Student to "Surprise Me!"