Future-proof Your Students

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future-proof your students

These are exciting timesto be an educator.

Not all classrooms are created equal.

The Internet is now the world’s biggest classroom.

(And it’s always open for business.)

It used to be that a book was something you’d read...

...now it’s also something that you listen to and connect from.

How far away is information today?

1 2, , 01(a concept by Nick Bilton)

How far away is information from students’ eyes?

10 ft

SONY

TV

1 ftPHONE

2 ft COMPUTER BOOK-or-

...[I]t won’t be one screen that replaces your newspaper or your TV show.

“Content will eventually automatically follow you from screen to screen, and place to place.

”It will be all of them.

- Nick Bilton

This is not the future.

We’re talking about the present.

There’s no telling what the future has in store.

We are currently preparing

students for jobs that don't yet

exist, using technologies that

haven't been invented yet, in order

to solve problems we don't even

know are problems yet.

- Karl Fisch

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Teachers still have a valuable role to play in

preparing students for their

hyperconnected futures.

By engaging them with the tools available today.

Tell me and I will forget.

Show me and I may remember.

Involve me and I will understand.- Chinese Proverb

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Here’s something four-year-olds know: a screen without a mouse is missing something. Here’s something else they know: media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.

- Clay Shirky

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Here’s something four-year-olds know: a screen without a mouse is missing something. Here’s something else they know: media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.

Here’s something four-year-olds know: a screen without a mouse is missing something. Here’s something else they know: media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.

and education!

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Image credits:

Via stock.xchng: Harry Fodor (3D glasses). Via Flickr: Marlon Hacla (various photos of Timoteo Paz Elementary School), TheGiantVermin (“Desks”), Josh Labatique (“208.365 Light Reading”), Dhillan Chandramowli

(“Classroom”), Ollie Brown (“Mouse”), and Steve Wall (“Snow Fog”). Via Amazon.com: Kindle 3G

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