Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
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 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 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) 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 Index