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Editor's Notes

1. Number of hosts breaks 1,000,000
2. What happens if I ignore the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants? From 2008 – Essay Marc PrenskyYoung Minds, Fast Times"There is so much difference between how students think and how teachers think," offered a female student in Florida.A young man commented, "You think of technology as a tool. We think of it as a foundation -- it's at the basis of everything we do."Bored, Bored, Bored
3. What happens if we fancy ourselves digital natives? "A lot of teachers make a PowerPoint and they think they're so awesome," said a girl in Florida. "But it's just like writing on the blackboard."Even if we have a teacher fresh from the University, they are still 4-6 years behind our oldest students.
4. They speak a different language It is code, and for every code, you learn they create 10 more [jk --- idk] Have you proofread a paper lately that had the letter U for the word you or the number 4 for the word f-o-r
5. Dead Language -- “An extraneous skill” now abandoned in 46 states  Some fear that if we stop teaching students to write in cursive, they'll no longer be able to read cursive either, leaving a swath of written materials that will be undecipherable.  And without cursive, how will people be able to sign their names,
6. Reading, Writing, Typing E-books How different will our libraries look? E-textbooks – closer than you think [Florida, California] Smaller mobile devices - will the QWERTY keyboard change to an alpha-numeric?
7. What can a digital immigrant possibly teach a digital native?The assumption of skill --  (Passanisi & Peters, 2012) "Just because a child jumps at the opportunity to program a TV to record his or her favorite shows does not mean that he or she will approach a classroom learning tool with the same zeal. In our experience, if students are not able to find answers to an Internet search in the first few results pages, they say “I can’t find it,” instead of adjusting their search, or reexamining the results in depth."
8. Ohler, J. (2011). Character education of the digital age. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb11/vol68/num05/Character-Education-for-the-Digital-Age.aspx
9. Adaptability  - The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. - James Yorke  Are we helping our students to be inflexible? Sometimes our own rigid policies and habits rub-off on our students // How can we foster adaptability?Learn a new software / learn, unlearn, and relearn [change is constant]Realize that according to the latest statistics only 8.7% of computer users use the MAC operating systems. Where 86.3% use a MS Windows operating system [Mac versus PC] – yet many of us subscribe to an All Mac All the time philosophy. Take notes in a new way /// Throw the curve balls -- Vary assessmentRequire primary research – interviews, surveys
10. Contemplation / Patience - A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. George Savile YOLO you only live once OR YOYO you’re only young onceWhat is the problem – when there is a lack of patience and contemplation in the digital worldOur students forget about safety, security, and privacyThey make snap or bad decisions that damage their reputationsSullivan, A. (2012, August 30). The digital natives are restless. The Daily Beast, Retrieved from http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/the-digital-natives-are-restless.html “Our students have no frame of reference of a "pre-Internet" world. They are accustomed to working with intuitive electronics that provide instant gratification, and when they are not able to be "done" quickly, they tend to become discouraged.” … All technology was not created equal for access by these students, and their proficiency is often predicated by the amount of patience and determination required to complete a given task.
11. Respect - Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me - Erich FrommLanguage is Code The issue of cyberbulling … worse sextingTexting at the tableTexting on a dateUp all night waiting for a textFrom 2006 – Essay “On being disrespected”Respect. We all probably think that we have it for our students. And we certainly think that they should have it for us. But do we? Do they? I am increasingly convinced that mutual disrespect lies at the root of many of today's classroom difficulties.So how do we inject mutual respect—rather than mutual disrespect—into our classrooms? We must foster the important message that each of us, whether adult or kid, teacher or student, is every day a learner in some areas and a teacher in others.Adults must accept that our kids have a lot to teach us, not only about technology, but also about 21st-century life in general, and that we can and should learn from them every day. Kids need to understand, particularly in light of today's rapid technological advances, that their teachers have important lessons to teach about technology—such as the meaning of research and of truth in an era rife with data and technical manipulation.
12. Initiative - Followers not leaders – Copiers not CreatorsFlash MobsTwitterFacebook lurkersTagging, re-tweeting, but not creatingLearned about “Cut and Paste” but not about Copyright and Plagiarism
13. Perseverance - “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” Charles R. Swindoll  / “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” Unknown  Lack of Intrinsic Motivation or Drive to Learn, only extrinsic motivators grades and prizes - Grade driven parents, everybody gets an award [thus the “you are not special” speech]Fear of failure – hampers learning [give permission to fail – give opportunities to learn from mistakes]
14. Study by librarians and anthropologists – Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Kolowich Steve, S. (2011, August 22). Inside higher ed. Retrieved from students rarely ask librarians for help, even when they need it. The idea of a librarian as an academic expert who is available to talk about assignments and hold their hands through the research process is, in fact, foreign to most students. Those who even have the word “librarian” in their vocabularies often think library staff are only good for pointing to different sections of the stacks.Seth Godin Blog - “The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.” … Library is no longer a warehouse for books --- The library is a house for the librarian.The prevalence of Google in student research is well-documented, but the Illinois researchers found something they did not expect: students were not very good at using Google. They were basically clueless about the logic underlying how the s earch engine organizes and displays its results. Consequently, the students did not know how to build a search that would return good sourcesThere was just one problem, Duke and Asher noted: “Students showed an almost complete lack of interest in seeking assistance from librarians during the search process.” Of all the students they observed -- many of whom struggled to find good sources, to the point of despair -- not one asked a librarian for help.