Hi Webmasters. Welcome to our Thursday night installment.
Here's some food for thought for our first assignment:
Last week I challenged you to conduct this awareness test with your students using this video from Teacher Tube .If you had time to do this please share your results here. Did your students notice what most of us missed?
To continue our discussion ...
Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures.
-Dr. Bruce D. Perry, Baylor College of Medicine
Our children today are being socialized in a way that is vastly different from their parents. The
numbers are overwhelming: over 10,000 hours playing videogames, over 200,000 emails and
instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones; over 20,000
hours watching TV (a high percentage fast speed MTV), over 500,000 commercials seen—all
before the kids leave college. And, maybe, at the very most, 5,000 hours of book reading. These
are today’s ―Digital Native students Excerpt from Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Part II:
Do They Really Think Differently?
By Marc Prensky
From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 6, December 2001)
© 2001 Marc Prensky
This data is obviously dated. Here's some updated mind numbing numbers about text messaging from Sean Fallon at Gizmoto. "The story of a 13 year old girl sending 14,000 text messages in a single month got a lot of press, but truth be told, that figure is actually fairly low.
For example, Sprint has confirmed that a 14-year old Florida girl
sent / received around 35,463 text messages in a month on two separate
occasions. That works out to 1,182 a day. As sad and depressingly
impressive as that is, those numbers don't come anywhere near the
Guinness record. Apparently, that "honor" is held by a man...a GROWN
man by the name of Deepak Sharma. He managed to send 182,689 messages in a single month—about 6100 messages a day (or 4.2 messages a minute)."
So, you might ask, what does this has to do with my school's web page. Your assignment is to read a little and you tell me. Why is this important to us ? Don't forget to log your time spent reading and reflecting on page two of this form that you must turn in to receive your stipend and MIPS . Our goal is ten hours in class and ten hours out of class, although I know you will spend a lot more than ten hours working on your sites. Here are some places to start but if you have other resources that's fine too. Please share them here.
Growing up digital
Digital natives
Engage me or Enrage Me
