Topic: Getting Started
I've spent a lot of time thinking about why it seems to be so difficult for educators to effectively incorporate technology use into instruction- not just blogs, although that's had my attention recently, but all kinds of technologies.
For a long time I've thought that much of it has to do with the findings from the Apple Classrooms or Tomorrow research which identified various stages of use people experience when learning to use a new technology. And I still think that the stages are important. But I couldn't figure out why so many people get stuck at Adoption and/or Adaptation. A few weeks ago I read Marc Prensky's articles Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Part II. While I'm not certain I believe that today's kids brains are wired differently, the rest of what he has to say makes a lot of sense.
I shared the information with some principals I'm working with and it was as if a light was turned on for them as well. Heads were nodding and people began to come up with all kinds of examples of their own digital 'accents.'
Have any of you read these articles? What do you think? Do you see the tie to ACOT and the lack of serious tech integration?
Posted by sjbrooks_young
at 6:24 PM PDT
