Preparing Today

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Preparing Todays Studentsfor Tomorrows World
Teaching the
iGENERATION

• A focused conversation with Solution Tree
  authorsBill Ferriter, Adam Garry, and Meg
  Ormiston.
• August 26-28, 2010

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• Inheriting a world with nearly universal access
  to the Internet, the iGeneration is almost
  universally plugged in. Ear buds hang from
  backpacks, and cell phones are stuffed into
  nearly every pocketXboxes have replaced Ataris,
  digital images have replaced negatives, and
  high-speed connections have replaced the dial-up
  modems that left all of us waiting for decades.
• Bill Ferriter Adam Garry

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• This is the first generation in human history in
  which the fortunes of youth growing up far apart
  will be demonstrably linked by increasingly
  powerful global socioeconomic, political and
  demographic realities.
• Marcelo Orozco-Suarez Carolyn Sattin

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• In fact, one of the saddest but most common
  conditions in elementary school computer labs is
  the children are being trained to use Word, Excel
  and PowerPoint.
• I consider that criminal, because children should
  be making things, communicating, exploring,
  sharing, not running office automation
  tools.  Nicholas Negroponte  

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• Engaged students and teachers are not always
  quiet. Students are not all sitting in their
  seats, doing the same thing. Active engagement
  can look messy to an outside observer.
• Yet, if structured correctly, this type of
  classroom can be an extraordinarily rich learning
  environment. Meg Ormiston 

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• Paralleling the rapid expansion of broadband
  Internet access, the availability of mobile
  devices, the rise of digital video recorders, the
  growth of the gaming industry, and the decreasing
  costs of personal video and photography
  equipment, access toand engagement withvisual
  content exploded in the first decade of the 21st
  Century.
• Bill Ferriter Adam Garry 

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• Collaborative Web 2.0 tools provide instant
  access to distant colleagues and information,
  allowing educators everywhere to expand their
  reach across the country or around the globe.
• Tapping this potential will require a shift in
  thinking, about networking as a way of taking
  personal responsibility for professional
  growth.Meg Ormiston 

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• Ever optimistic, techno-cheerleaderspicture
  something that doesnt yet exist classrooms
  illuminating the wide, wide world, teachers
  becoming twenty-first-century techno-facilitators,
  and students at screens inspired to ponder,
  imagine, reflect, analyze, memorize, recite and
  create. Mark Bauerlein

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