Edina Digital Age Learning

This session featured Ian Jukes and Lee Crocket in a "drive by conversation" on Teaching the Digital Generation. The presentation material can be found here if you sign up. He asked us to step back from our exsisting world and get a "swift kick in our assumptions." The powerful new technologies are affecting todays students. Most of the change that our parents and grandparents experienced were incremental. Anyone under the age of 25 the changes are more rapid and Understanding the Digital Generation book Highlights: As parents, citizens and educators need to understand that on the inside today's kids are completely different. Not because of them physically maturing faster, their clothing styles, or what they listen to. Due to digital bombardment, primarily outside of school, their brains are adapting to these new technologies. They have developed a cultural brain. Because of this bombard ment their brains are physically changing. They are neurologically differen...

Today several staff members from Edina attended a workshop at the Zurah Shrine Center , with Jabari Mahiri , on Teaching Diverse and Digital Youth. Topics included: The Culture and Discipline of Achievement Several clips were shown to demonstrate how teachers can successfully engage cultural differences to increase student achievement. Teachers need: Disciplinary knowledge, Cultural Knowledge and perspectives, Technological Knowledge and Skills, which funnels in to our Pedagogical Knowledge and Practices. He said that our traditional sense of what Disciplinary knowledge is, is changing as we explore transformative digital tools. Dewey was right! In 1938 he talked about using the experiences of our students, which Mahiri noted is changing in our diverse society. There is a cultural foundation of "being an American" that is the foundation we must start from... He showed images of advertisements with people of color on the periphery of the image, which indicates marginalization...