1. “ Did You Know IV - (4) ?” 21 st Century Learning Tools for the Classroom Revised 11-2007 Howie DiBlasi I.T. Director “ Emerging Technology Evangelist” Digital Journey 1034 East 3 rd Ave. Durango Colorado 970-749-0760 Conference Presentation – 2007 [email_address]
2. Thanks to the following for content, data and statistics: Alan November David Warlick Thomas Friedman Will Richardson Ian Jukes Chris Dede Ray Kurzwell Angus King Milken Conference Dan Schmidt K arl Fisch –for the original Did You Know Howie DiBlasi Music:Used with permission: Last of the Mohicans ! The Kiss;Elk Hunt All music composed by Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman and Clannad.. Music by Trevor Jones for the 1992 drama movie. Released 11/13/2001 on the Morgan Creek label, catalog number 20015
4. 53 Million American Adults ( 44% ) of Internet users used the Internet to publish, respond, post photos, share files and content
5. American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the Internet as they create and share their own media creations….
6. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the Internet could be considered Content Creators
7. They have created a blog, wiki or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online
8. Millions of amateur reporters now have their own digital printing press. They are editors who blog. ( Pein, 2005)
9. There are over 70 million blogs and counting 1, 000,000 (million ) posts each day on the blogs The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago.
10. 8 out of 10 people do not know what a Blog is Do you ?
11. “ How do we prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators as well?” Will Richardson, 2006
12. “ What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls? Will Richardson, 2006
13. There is much reason to believe their implementation in schools will better prepare students for a slew of new illiteracies and competencies in their post-education lives. (Will Richardson, 2006)
14. There are people who will collaborate, create large storehouses of information, and change our relationship to technology, and re-write the paradigms of how things work. They are just being born. Dan Gillmor
15. Today’s students may not be well suited to the more linear progression of learning that most educators employ. ( Mark Prensky)
16. The past 25 years in technology have been the warm-up act. What we are now entering is the MAIN EVENT which is the era in which technology will truly transform every aspect of business, government, education and society of life. ( Carly Fiorina, former- CEO of HP)
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18. Read/Write Web tools have relevance to state and local core content curriculum standards. (Will Richardson, 2006)
19. 9 out of 10 people do not know what a Wiki is Do you?
20. 9 out of 10 do not know what a Podcast is Do you?
21. 6 million American adults have listened to podcasts There are 100,000 podcasts and subscribers are growing @ 20 % per month
22. What the average teen is doing outside of school on an average day:
23. 6.5 hours with media outside of school 33% of on the Internet 26% on TV 21% telephone 15% radio
24. 81 % of students have e-mail accounts 75% of students have IM – (Instant messenger accounts) 97% of students believe technology use is very important in education ( Netday survey, 2005)
25. The fastest growing age group for using the Internet is…. 2-5 year olds ( NetDay News , 2005)
26. YouTube serves 100 million videos per day. ……served 2.5 billion videos to nearly 20 million unique visitors in June of 2006. Do you know what YouTube is?
51. Steven R. Appleton: CEO of Micron: “I don’t have to hire one more person in the U.S….I don’t have to invest one more dollar here-and we will be just fine”* Quoted to Michelle Thompson in a April interview on the Global Economy-5-2007
58. The U.S. is 20 th in the world in broadband Internet penetration. (Luxembourg just passed us.)
59. Wired For Growth* *Business Week April 9,2007 Europe Blows away the US and Asia in Network Readiness Index: #1. Denmark #2. Sweden #3. Singapore #5. Switzerland #6. Netherlands #7. US
60. 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
61. "In 2010 accessible online data is expected to approach a Yottabyte…… , or 1 trillion terabytes.” ( yotta- septillions 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) * IBM Unveils Storage Capacity on Demand for Growing e-businesses B usiness Wire , October 27, 2000
62. There are over 100 million registered users of MySpace. (December: 2006)
80. Technology has become an indispensable tool in the education of today’s students. ( Netday survey, 2005)
81. Students think differently than us..they develop hypertext minds…they leap around..their cognative structures are parallel not sequential. ( Mark Prenskey )
82. Alan November…. “We need to emphasized the necessity of students learning with others around the world and stress that 3 skills are needed to teach our children.”
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86. Have we changed our teaching methods to reflect new technology?
87. “ We can’t avoid learning these tools. We can’t walk away from this” - Alan November
88. “ The fact is, our young people are woefully under prepared for the demands of today’s workplace,” said Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
89. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
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