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  • GingerLewman
    We're creating highly educated useless people with our current system. Ted McCain won't tell kids what they don't ask him about.
  • GingerLewman
    Ted McCain is Jukes' in-the-classroom partner. Like I am for KevinHoneycutt.
  • GingerLewman
    "Teaching for Tomorrow" Jukes/McCain book. Dallas is building 14 schools based on this model.
  • GingerLewman
    The book is 80 pages, and written in ENGLISH. Understandable.
  • GingerLewman
    Kids can (4D's) Define the problem, Design some solutions, Do it. Vision-Into-Practice (VIP), Debrief. Essentials to thinking process.
  • GingerLewman
    Process based learning is like trying to learn to ride a bike. Learn it, go away from it, then relearn in unconscious, internalised process.
  • GingerLewman
    Headware vs Hardware. Hardware changes, Headware (skills) never change.
  • GingerLewman
    *so glad I'm blogging this--even for myself*
  • GingerLewman says
    he may go a few minutes overtime today. We all say *aaawwweee*
  • GingerLewman
    Switching gears: Change and Kids:
  • GingerLewman
    Jukes' telling sthe story about taking step-son Nils to Slayer. LOL! Shows guy with FULLY tattooed/pierced face.
  • GingerLewman
    talking about how he ended up in the Mosh pit. And realized that he had a brief glimpse into a world that he really didn't know.
  • KarinB says
    I'm back, glad I bookmarked the RSS feed....will catch up later, thanks for liveblog!
  • GingerLewman
    Evidence is quickly mounting that because of the pervasivness of tech, kids brains are quickly adapted to accommodate to the tech
  • GingerLewman
    and the experiences that come with them. *Screenagers* They know that screens are interactive environments.
  • GingerLewman
    (digital "native" talk) will hold off my own opinions...
  • GingerLewman
    He's talking as Digital as First Language. (makes me wonder if older folks need DSL services--digital as a second language services.
  • GingerLewman
    We use neural pathways to make connections of learning. In the past 3 years, almost all of those long-standing assumptions of brain research
  • GingerLewman
    Brain is highly malleable and adaptable. We DO NOT have fixed # of brain cells. Brain is constantly reorganizing itself.
  • GingerLewman
    Based on experiences and duration and intensity of those experiences.
  • GingerLewman
    We can actually re-grow neurons. The intelligence we are born with isn't fixed. (good news for education and even stroke victims)
  • GingerLewman
    Neuroplasticity. The brain is plastic. creating new thinking patterns throughout our lives.
  • GingerLewman
    basically you *can* teach an old dog new tricks.
  • GingerLewman
    Again, "Brain Rules" by John Medina. Comes with DVD and 12 specific researched brain rules. Myths of multitasking.
  • GingerLewman
    Must re-inforce information within 2 hours. Critical wall of sleep. Brain is incredibly active and formulating/organizing during the nite.
  • GingerLewman
    If you hear a piece of info, and 3 days later, you're asked to recall it, you get 10%. iF you include pic, you get 65% back.
  • GingerLewman
    "Everything Bad is Good for You." Steven Johnson Digital devices have become extensions of themselves. Come to class with different habits.
  • GingerLewman
    Gaming is NOT for slackers. Mentally enriching. Finetuning perceptions. Exercises for the mind like mvmt for the body.
  • GingerLewman
    These skills are NOT vlaued or tested by traditional assessments.
  • GingerLewman
    Talking Dan Pink--whole new mind. (I'm thinking about Gary Stager and Clay Burell right about now!)
  • gsellart says
    where are you following this?
  • GingerLewman
    right brain (creative brain) has as much value as the Left/Linear brain.
  • GingerLewman
    Caveat: brain does not go neuroplastic on its own. Needs to have intensive, sustained stimulation and focus over a period of time .
  • GingerLewman
    several hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • GingerLewman
    TV for extended periods of time will re-program the brain too.
  • GingerLewman
    Talking MMORPG. (multiple online role playing games) This has been going on several hours a day, every day for YEARS. Kids r re-programmed.
  • milobo says
    I'm putting together my Amazon reading list as you're talking titles - some I have, some I don't - we need to start a book discussion plurk!
  • GingerLewman thinks
    that plurk is *terrific* for book discussion.
  • GingerLewman
    Jukes: Reality reality is much better than virtual reality.
  • GingerLewman
    Parents today spend 40% less time with their kids than they did even 10 years ago!
  • GingerLewman
    Human Brain Project: International consortium for Brain Mapping (neuroinformatics)
  • milobo says
    of that time, I'd wonder how much is spent in active interaction and how much in passive pursuits (watching TV together)?
  • GingerLewman
    fMRIs: using functional Magnetic Re Imaging
  • GingerLewman
    Jukes said that most of that time is spent watching TV
  • GingerLewman
    New Imaging technique: the Brainbow. Like we color code house wiring--they're color coding thought paths. showing color pic of hippocampus.
  • GingerLewman
    We can soon trace precisely where the blocks occur.
  • GingerLewman
    Scientific American article: The Teen Brain--showing scans of people doing specifc tasks. If you were to take FMRIs from 2 generations back
  • GingerLewman
    you'd see typically that older gen uses different paths to synthesize same info to same end.
  • GingerLewman
    Kidshave measurable different neural path ways to process same information. (through the visual cortex)
  • GingerLewman
    averge video game takes 40 hours to master. Visual processing skills dramatically increase with 10 hours of game play, reshaping the brain.
  • GingerLewman
    Digital natives can recall 90% of content with images. Middle Age gets <65%, and 80ish year olds recall <10%.
  • GingerLewman
    Eye processes vision 60,000x faster than looking at text. We read the shape of the world.
  • GingerLewman
    30% of brain cortex is visual
  • GingerLewman
    Digital natives read in the "F" pattern. Found at Kent State University.
  • GingerLewman
    (the research is found there). UNLESS you put awesome image in lower right hand side of page, kids' eyes wont look there!
  • GingerLewman
    Adults like to read black text on white background. Depending on background. Kids love blood red, pink, neon green. In that order.
  • GingerLewman
    they IGNORE black on white background. BAH!
  • GingerLewman
    87% of tests are based on momorization of text. Is citing Prensky's stats on what kids see by age 18.
  • GingerLewman
    because the kids look essentially the same as we did, it's so hard to see that they act differently, view things differently, ARE different.
  • GingerLewman
    If *we're* still teaching kids the same way, knowing they're different, WHO HAS THE LEARNING PROBLEM? (this one gave me teary eyes)
  • GingerLewman
    Digital learners prefer rec info quicly from mult multimedia sources.
  • milobo says
    wow - powerful stuff! and I wonder about the research on digital natives reading strategies - does that hold true for text on a computer?
  • GingerLewman
    that *is* what they're talking about. Read Wired Mag. They have odd looking things. For a reason. It's not meant for "immigrants."
  • GingerLewman
    digital learners prefer pictures sound, video, over text.
  • GingerLewman
    picture is worth 1000 words. immigrants prefer the 1000 words.
  • GingerLewman
    please note when I say immigrants, i'm ALWAYS meaning digital immigrants.
  • GingerLewman
    Digital learners prefer random and hypertext. Immigrants prefer linear, left to right path of thought.
  • GingerLewman
    (thinking back to discomfort of many of this scroll on plurk)
  • GingerLewman
    this is NOT about "either/or" There needs to be a BALANCE.
  • GingerLewman
    Kids want to network and collab. Teachers expect them to gather info, then talk.
  • GingerLewman
    Digital learners prefer "just in time" learning. Teachers prefer" just in case" learning
  • GingerLewman
    (wonder how many responses I can get on here before I have to start a new plurk)
  • GingerLewman
    DL prefer immediate gratification and instant rewards. Teachers prefer defferred gratification.
  • GingerLewman
    Digital nat are intellectual problem solvers. These are built in to their games/shows. NOT slackers.
  • GingerLewman
    seems to be a palpable change in the room. They seem to be nodding MUCH less.
  • milobo says
    I'd be nodding - difference is the problems have to be important to them *and their peers*, or they look like slackers to us.
  • GingerLewman
    Audience comment: "Our idea of relevance doesn't relate to video games. They're not related to real world."
  • GingerLewman
    break. He's gonna give us 7 tips to engage digital learners.
  • metaweb says
    Ginger this "live blogging" ability in Plurk is definitely a plus point on Plurks side of the micrblogging fence
  • metaweb says
    I am grabbing the RSS feed for Ginger's live blog by clicking on "Plurk Page" link at bottom of this thread then clicking on the RSS button
  • GingerLewman
    got to IanJukes.com and look at the Understanding Digital Kids under "downloadable Handouts"
  • GingerLewman
    He's got THOUSANDS of pages there.
  • GingerLewman
    woah. I just put Ian Juke . com and it made a REAL link.
  • karlyb says
    I'm enjoying how you are using this as a live blog.
  • GingerLewman
    Living life like a quarterback: Does he throw the ball to where the receiver IS, or is GOING to be? Gotta work backwards.
  • GingerLewman
    called thinking in future tense. Nothing more than the past of the future. (yike!)
  • GingerLewman
    What skills and habits of MINE do we need kids to ahve (other than being able to score on bubble tests) inorder for them to be successful.
  • GingerLewman
    Citing Larning by Design (Tighe, right?)
  • GingerLewman
    THE most powerful tech in the classroom is, was, and will remain, the classroom teacher WITH A LOVE OF LEARNING.
  • GingerLewman
    Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer, DESERVES to be.
  • GingerLewman
    Far less to do with software, hardware, but more with HEADWARE (remember from this morning)?
  • GingerLewman
    Can be done w/o ZERO money. Teach interviewing skills.
  • GingerLewman
    teach them to use Headware. Those are the 21st century skills.
  • GingerLewman
    70% of usage of tech in K12 in America is at literacy level. The next levelis integrated augmentative adaptive level.
  • GingerLewman
    We use new tech to REinforce OLD ways of thinking. (i agree totally. yuk.)
  • GingerLewman
    "I notice that you and your kids have been using tech for a long time. If I was to take away the tech, would you be teaching the same way?"
  • GingerLewman
    if you're using integrated augmentative adaptive tech, your answer will be YES.
  • GingerLewman
    But there's yet another level.
  • GingerLewman
    Transformative uses of technology. We know how to use the hard/software, understand literacy, now use the tech to take me to places, do
  • GingerLewman
    things that would be aboslutely impossible to do with out the tech. To communicate at distance, mix dangerous chemicals. The tech skills are
  • GingerLewman
    incidental. EMPHasis is on the problem solving, creative thinking, collaborative, etc. DRIVEN by students AND dteacher.
  • GingerLewman
    "If I take the tech away, will you be able to teach, learners learn, students assessed, can you still teach?" NO--because environ has been
  • GingerLewman
    transformed. Looking for a 1:1:1 balance in these 3 levels.
  • GingerLewman
    learning about the tech is incidental by product. Essentials are based in HEADWARE. Getting it Right--bernagene Porter.
  • GingerLewman
    Go to Jukes' site for TONS of info and great pics. This guy has put a lot of stuff out there for all of us. He says USE it. Seriously.
  • GingerLewman
    called Committed Sardine Lots of "F" words--FREE and FUNNY.
  • GingerLewman
    Because of NAFTA, we're all one. Buenos Dias, eh?
  • GingerLewman
    Getting inside the brains of digital kids: *whew*
  • GingerLewman
    They are absolutely different.
  • GingerLewman
    NCES--loved by Margaret Spellings. 60% of kids who start K in america, don't finish grade 12.
  • GingerLewman
    only 28% of 12th grade students feel HS work is meaningful. 39% won't have any bearing on later success. Opinion of studens who have
  • GingerLewman
    been SUCCESSFUL in school. meh.
  • GingerLewman
    If kids only are in classes because they HAVE to be, what can we do RIGHT NOW to get them to want to be there.
  • GingerLewman
    kids are voting with their minds and with their feet.
  • GingerLewman
    1. Time to Catch Up Must be a balance between traditional and shift culture.
  • GingerLewman
    dude is on a RANT. we must change and not give lipservice. period.
  • GingerLewman
    live in their world for a while! Go web2.0--EXPERIENCE it.
  • GingerLewman
    (man I'm feeling good. I've done nearly all he's recommending. sorry, no way to post all of them. Just listing tools and telling you to use.
  • GingerLewman
    (and I'm sitting between 2 guys who are taking notes on their paper.)
  • GingerLewman
    #2: Teach to the Whole New Mind
  • GingerLewman
    talking about action verbs on tests. they're all at lowest levels of Blooms.
  • Vance likes
    following ginger and watching Jeff Utechts stream of D warlick etc in the blogging cafe
  • GingerLewman
    loving that when the audience comments or questions, they speak LOUDLY and quickly. Mimicking Jukes.
  • GingerLewman
    thanks Vance for comment. Tell those dudes that plurk is good for this! ;-)
  • GingerLewman is
    very interested in reading that book. Actually, listening to it. Is it on Audible.com?
  • GingerLewman
    In the information age, we ALL need to be able to work with ALL forms, not just traditional R, R, R of informaiton and transform it into
  • GingerLewman
    something useful for their future.
  • GingerLewman
    Techological fluency. Learning to be a problem solver with the tools. NOt learning abt powerpointlessness, but learning how to deliver.
  • GingerLewman
    not about teaching button pushing skills. It's about learning THROUGH the tech.
  • GingerLewman
    Media fluency is not about creating podcasts/videos/etc. It's about being able to look critically at media and being able to understand how
  • GingerLewman
    it's being used to effectively communicate with user. How our thinking is being shaped.
  • GingerLewman
    select the appropriate media for the message. Sometimes podcast is good. sometimes blog is good. Match media to message.
  • GingerLewman
    not passive viewing or consuming. Create and publish origianl products to COMMUNICATE.
  • GingerLewman
    talking principals of graphic design and parent motion.
  • GingerLewman
    oh duh--APPARENT motion. Pics with action. durh
  • GingerLewman
    ability to unconsciencely and intuitively interpret all forms of media to extract knowledge significance and apply in real world.
  • GingerLewman
    wow. dude has a LOT of info. I'm not usually overwhelmed. Especially when blogging.
  • GingerLewman
    access, analyze, apply, and assess this information. Good fluency skills.
  • Skip Z says
    I think your tool lust podcast was 'the berries'! Thanks. :-D
  • GingerLewman
    New podcast coming about this live blogging on plurk experience. gotta remember some things.
  • GingerLewman
    thankful there's not a lot of activity but me right now.
  • GingerLewman
    Columbian strategy: getting kids into social networking with "Crack" of webkinz, club pengin, etc
  • GingerLewman
    we need to take a series of baby steps/scaffolding. Kids don't know. we need to define what sort of awareness kids needs online.
  • GingerLewman
    21sr cent cfluenceies need to be taught like math/reading in every class, in library, in class. everywhere.
  • GingerLewman
    #3 Shift the instructional approach
  • GingerLewman
    begin with progressive withdrawal.
  • GingerLewman
    oh, now I've become distracted. Bad blogger (after how many hours?)
  • Skip Z says
    Ahhhh! The Columbian strategy!
  • GingerLewman
    he's talking with audience about using tools and not having to learn crap curriculum (TM--GingerTPLC)
  • GingerLewman
    #6 Create Products that reflect content and process!
  • GingerLewman
    7: We must re-evaluate evaluation.
  • GingerLewman
    jukes is now refusing to go on. voice is gone. brain is gone. Want to buy him a much-deserved drink
  • GingerLewman
    but he got mike and he's still talking and clicking slides.
  • GingerLewman
    only two people have left--presumably to meet at pre-arraned time.
  • GingerLewman
    email him here: ianjukes@mac.com and if you put "I need to be committed" in the body of the text, he says that on a blood oath, he'll resp
  • GingerLewman
    hmm. karma was going down here at the end. and Jukes is still talking.
  • GingerLewman
    talking about GWB and the time he spent with him.
  • GingerLewman
    WOW! done. people are still sitting. but I have to go.
  • GingerLewman
    thanks all! Let me know if you link this elsewhere, so in case I get in huge trouble for blogging it, I can take you down iwth me!!!
  • lfeld52
    nice job! maybe next year I will be there too!
  • milobo shares
    Ian won't take you down - he's the neatest guy I've met and means what he says about sharing.
  • milobo says
    I was lucky to get an extended 1 on 1 conversation with him during the FL PAEC conference a few years ago.
  • milobo says
    as long as you can pass his "Canadian literacy for US citizens quiz" he's quite friendly ;-)
  • milobo says
    hee-hee! He's a bit miffed that US citizens don't know much about Canada - how many provinces & territories, capitol, PM, etc.
  • milobo says
    I think I got on his good side when I could name provinces from West Coast to East along with each capitol and only missed one province! :-)
  • GingerLewman
    oh, I may be ok since I really do admire Canada in many ways. And have traveled there.
  • metaweb says
    Up to 193 live blog posts ... Looks like Plurk can and does deliver the goods!
  • metaweb says
    Not many Canadians or US citizens (being careful not to say Americans) don't know the point where Canada is exactly due south of the USA...
  • metaweb says
    It is Detroit btw ... Detroit is south of Windsor, Ontario .. there is a little finger that dips under the thumb of Michigan
  • metaweb says
    I mean Detroit is NORTH of Windsor .. sheesh
  • Nedra_I says
    Great job, really enjoyed this. BTW many US citizens don't even know US geography let alone Canadian.

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