1. TECH TEACHING: USING TECHNOLOGY TO REVITALIZE YOUR CLASSES Euler França Jr Brasília - Oct 23 rd , 2009 Total Quality - Macmillan School for Teachers
15. The problem is that our students focus their considerable skills, amplified by the light of the new technologies, on what most of us would consider trivial and mindless entertainments. DIGITAL NATIVES X DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS
16. Internet and the brain Brain activity from Internet search - October 06, 2008 Functional MRI brain scans show how searching the Internet dramatically engages brain neural networks (in red). The image on the left displays brain activity while reading a book; the image on the right displays activity while engaging in an Internet search. Source: University of California, 2009
17. "We are changing the environment. The average young person now spends nine hours a day exposing their brain to technology. Evolution is an advancement from moment to moment and what we are seeing is technology affecting our evolution." Prof. Gary Small, UCLA 2009
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19. They expect things to work properly and work fast . They get bored if not challenged properly, but when challenged, they excel in creative and innovative ways. They learn by doing , not by reading the instruction manual or listening to lectures. McNeely, 2005
39. RSS “the new killer app for educators” because it enables them to collect specific data without having to sift through innumerable Web and print pages.