we're in a compulsive shock that is causing us to wake up and look at our conditions.
at the same time - new communications - that are enabling us to rethink all these institutions (any institutions)
when you have the cream of the crop boycotting the former means of pedagogy - the writing is on the wall
we have the best model of learning that 18th cent tech can provide
boom bust echoecho:computer replaces tv - no longer passive recipient
his son - and friends watching tv - and testing things out as they watch (diff than the gunsmoke days)
first time in history were children are in authority of something really important
60's generation gap
no gap today, kids and paernts get along pretty well... compared to beatles, etc
today - generation lap - kids are lapping adults
the dumbest generation - don't trust anyone under 30
in terms of brain develop - a lot we don't know about the brain learned more about the brain in last 7 yrs than in all of history
2 critical periods of brain development:
- 0-3 not much affect by all of this (hugged and read to) (ipad for babies?)
- 8-18 - extended adolescence - after dna, the #1 variable determining what your brain is like is
if you spend 24 hours a week being the passive recipient of someone else's video game - that's the kind of brain you develop (as dan's generation did), if you spend equiv being active, initiator, authenticator, multi-tasker... gives a diff kind of brain as well
most controversial - multi-tasking: it looks like doing 5 things at once, but she's not.. pushing the brain past many of conventional limitations.. not the dumbest generation but the smartest generation
kids coming home and living at home - why is that a bad thing?
youth community service is at an all time high
youth crime has gone down
clean (drugs & alcohol) kids is up
safety, balance, failing schools, generation firewall, (all kids should set privacies on fb)
dumb generation - newspaper comes out once a day
the problem - is the model of pedagogy..
lecture is useful to motivate and that's about it...
we need to a student focused model - not just because we can - but this new generation learns differently
to 7 yr olds - you know the deal... you can partner, single out, ... your choice, teacher is curating a customized a collaborative experience - how can portugal do this? portugal telecom is a big funder... because they don't have a lot of internet in the home.. now that kids have them at school... kids ask parents to have it at home
we don't have the funds.... is not an excuse....
we have the funds for government employees
we don't have the funds for our children to have their birthright - access to connections (knowledge and people)
virginia tech just got rid of all math lectures... a math emporium
master in ed 1975 - took a graduate course... prof was available - but was able to go his own pace
we need to fix this,
kerry academy - school as camp
ended with story of joe - doesn't read books... but... (list of things he's done) got a rhodes scholarship 2009, reads fiction,
200 mill families have their kids in homeschools
when you have a time of paradigm shift - you get a crisis leadership
BIRDS starlings video: sharing info in a primitive way, an openeness an interdependence, an integrity - together they have great power
could we achieve a consciousness that goes beyond an individual...
the problem has been that humans that are not conscious cannot learn
institutions that are not conscious cannot learn
if we can create a community of consciousness
my notes from him here at BIF 6
his site here wrote growing up digital and wikinomics and ..
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