Mr.+Marc+Prensky

Education and Learning in the 21st Century - How, Why and What We Need to Do Differently
December 19, 2007 Governor's Institute for Innovation in Education State College, PA

Mr. Marc Prensky marc@games2train.com [|www.marcprensky.com]

Presentation Notes:
__Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning__ Games for Learning Financial Literacy, Chemistry, and Algebra – newest games designed by Marc Marc’s biggest concern: That people think they can reform the educational system without the students’ equal participation. What are the biggest concern of kids: That their teachers are boring them today and not preparing them for tomorrow. High performance kids over high performance schools

Who are the 21st century kids? Not “little us’s” anymore! Today’s younger learners are NOT the ones our systems (and teachers) were trained for.

Why? 5, 000 - 10,000 hours video games 250,000 e-mails and IMs 10,000 hours on cell phones 20000 hours TV (including You Tube) 500,000 commercials Less than 5,000 hours book reading 2 billion ring tones per year 2 billion songs per month

“Young people are not just using technology differently today, but are approaching their life and their daily activities differently because of the technology.” Tomorrow.org (can have students complete a survey online. The emerging online life of a digital native. We need to help comes become better digital natives. We need to be part of the solution.

“Keep the computer labs open ‘til midnight on weeknights and weekends.” Tomorrow.org

What do educators need to hear? Our schools ARE failing our kids. Not just in the US, but around the world because we are not preparing our kids for THEIR future. They are not ADD but EDE (Engage me or enrage me!) Balance the top down with the bottoms ups (listening to the kids). Kids expect real work that truly affects the world.

http://mabryonline.org/archives/mtv Use/teach PowerPoint in grades 1 – 6 and move on to bigger/better things like Flash at the upper levels.

Wii Dating video So what would Wii teaching look like? 

19 Things for Teachers to try in the Next 30 days
1. Find tech buddies who know more than you 1 teacher, 1 student 2. Hold a class meeting to talk with students about how they want to be taught 3. Ask students about tech using 4. Appoint a different student as your teaching assistant for each week of the year 5. Teach one or more lessons with NO lecturing and NO worksheets 6. Make it your personal goal to eliminate boredom from your classroom 7. Take your classes’ temperature 8. Get something unblocked – even if for a short period of time 9. Assign homework where the kids can use tech they like 10. Have students create wikis 11. Decide what topics you WON’T cover 12. Hold a teacher meeting in a virtual world (Club Penguin) 13. Do a class project around the future that the students suggest 14. Have your students install and populate an RSS aggregator in your classroom 15. Ask who plays a game 16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Integrate the seven habits of highly effective people into your instruction 17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Give a meaningful open-phone test 18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Have your student help SHARE your most effective ideas/results [|www.marcprensky.com] [|www.socialimpactgames.com] [|www.gamesparentstteachers.com] <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif""> [|www.games2train.com]

Marc’s 21st Century skills
1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Knowing the right thing to do a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Ethical b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Thinking c.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Decision making d.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Problem solving e.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Judgement 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Getting it done a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Goal setting b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Planning c.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Self-direction d.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Self-evaluation 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Doing it with others a.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Communicating/interacting b.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Communicating interacting with machines c.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> With a world audience 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Creatively and do it better