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Teaching the Digital Generation:
No More Cookie Cutter High Schools
By Frank S. Kelly, Ted McCain, Ian Jukes
Guiding principles for creating a new vision of schooling
1) Start by looking at kids and learning
This is a critical point. Traditionally, creating new schools has focused on teachers and
instruction instead of kids and learning. But if we want to create schools that tailor
instruction for maximum effect for digital learners, we must begin by looking at modern
kids and how they learn. There is a growing body of research concerning digital learning
styles and preferences as well as research on how the brains of today’s young people
function. This mounting body of work indicates that if we want to be effective in teaching
modern students, then we need to look at different approaches to instruction.
2) Learning must prepare students for a world of constant change
Today’s students will graduate into a world unlike anything we have ever seen before.
21st century life will be fundamentally different from the experiences most of us had
growing up and exponentially different than life today. Astounding technological
development is driving continual and ever increasing rates of change. In this environment
we cannot look at the world of today, but must envision the world of tomorrow and the
skills and knowledge students will need for success in that future world. Students must be
provided with strategies for handling a world that is always on the move.
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