"This book is a must-read for any educator who wants to successfully work with the digital generation, because it is so practical and filled with ideas to engage 21st-century students."
-Ian Jukes, Author of Teaching the Digital Generation
"A truly great and inspiring book. My students are a testament that partnering does work."
-Randon Ruggles, Teacher
FAIR School, Minneapolis, MN
"Finally someone has written a book for teachers that goes beyond pedagogy and philosophy, giving teachers something they can use on Monday morning!"
-Sandy Fivecoat, CEO
WeAreTeachers
"The good news: teachers don't have to be masters of technology to master the 21st-century classroom. Prensky has developed a map for a new era of teaching and learning that educators will find a breeze to navigate, and well worth the trip!"
-Jonathan Ben-Asher, Principal
Henry and Wrightstown Elementary Schools, Tucson, AZ
A new paradigm for teaching and learning in the 21st century!
Students today are growing up in a digital world. These "digital natives" learn in new and different ways, so educators need new approaches to make learning both real and relevant for today's students.
Marc Prensky, who first coined the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," presents an intuitive yet highly innovative and field-tested partnership model that promotes 21st-century student learning through technology. Partnership pedagogy is a framework in which:
Digitally literate students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media
Teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality
Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide
Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and "getting things done"
With numerous strategies, how-to's, partnering tips, and examples, Teaching Digital Natives is a visionary yet practical book for preparing students to live and work in today's globalized and digitalized world.
About the Author
Introduction: Our Changing World: Technology and Global Society
What Today's Students Want
Partnering and Twenty-first Century Technology
REAL, Not Just Relevant
Motivation Through Passion
Teaching for the Future
The Road to a Pedagogy of Partnering
1. Partnering: a Pedagogy for the New Educational Landscape
Moving Ahead
How Partnering Works
Establishing Roles and Mutual Respect
Getting Motivated to Partner With Your Students
2. Moving to the Partnership Pedagogy
Seeing Your Students Differently
Setting Up Your Classroom to Facilitate Partnering
Choosing Your Partnering "Level": Basic, Directed, Advanced
Technology and Partnering: Nouns vs. Verbs
Partnering and The Required Curriculum
Taking Your First (or Next) Steps into Partnering
3. Think "People and Passions" rather than "Classes and Content"
Learn your students' interests and passions
Living Out the Partnering Roles
More Ideas
4. Always be REAL (not Just Relevant)
A New Perspective
Making Our Subjects REAL
More Ways to Make Things REAL
Always Think "Future"
5. Planning: Content to Questions, Questions to Skills
Using Guiding Questions
Focus on the appropriate verbs
6. Using Technology in Partnering
Technology is the Enabler
Technology and Equity: To Each His or Her Own
Let the Students Use All Technology
Using the Appropriate Nouns (Tools) for the Guiding Questions and Verbs
7. Understanding the "Nouns," or Tools
8. Let Your Students Create
A real, World Audience
Aim High / Raise the bar
9. Continuous Improvement Through Practice and Sharing
Improving Through Iteration
Improving Through Practice
Improving Through Sharing
More Ways to Help Yourself Improve
10. Assessment in the Partnership Pedagogy
Useful Assessment: Beyond Summative and Formative
Assessing Students' Progress
Assessing Teachers' Progress
Assessing Administrators' Progress
Assessing Parents' Progress
Assessing Schools' Progress
Assessing Our Nation's Progress, and the World's
Conclusion: The (Not Too Distant) Future of Education
What Should A New Curriculum Be?: Essential Twenty-first Century Skills
Using the Partnership Pedagogy With New Curricula
Creating Schools With Partnering In Mind
Toward a Twenty-first Century Education for All
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