At his opening keynote this morning, Marc Prensky gave a 50,000 foot view of Future-Cation, a phrase he has coined to talk about what we should be teaching. The keynote did not have a lot of meat, and h e promised more detail in the afternoon, so I decided to check it out. Future-cation is not just "adding technology." If you are writing w/ technology and only write, that i Future-Cation is a state of mind. Thinking about the future in everything you do. Seeing things in new ways. A dozen things it means practically: No Best Practices-A lot of people running around to see what's going on in Finland. By the time you get back, you are further behind. Invent new ones instead! Change what we do, every time we do it! Seeing Preparing Kids for the Future as YOUR Job!-It's easy to ask, "Tell me what to do?!" Ask your students! Assign one of your students as a tech advisor for each unit. Viewing tech not as the enemy, add-on, hindrance or something op...
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