Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning!
I came across the following post about this book on another list I read and found it profoundly fascinating. Not that the concept is new to me or the other parents on that list, but profound for mainstream parents because its premise defies conventional parental wisdom. It sounds wonderful and I just have to buy it.
"Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning" How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids For 21st Century Success--and How You Can Help! by Marc Prensky
Click on the title above for the link.
A profoundly counter-culture case FOR video games and how they help kids (and adults) learn. He describes kids as being Digital Natives while adults are Digital Immigrants, and how Immigrants teaching Natives causes problems. It's a compelling idea. Our kids have been born into technology while we have had to adapt to it.
Some Quotes:
"But perhaps the most important lesson you'll learn is how to augment and improve what your children are learning, by having conversations--that they want to have--about their games.
"I strongly believe that there is great benefit to all parties, young and old, from understanding more about this phenomenon that so engages our young people."
"WheneverI go to school I have to 'power down'" -- a student.
"Today's game-playing kid enters the first grade able to do and understand so many complex things--from building, to flying, to reasoning--that the curriculum they are given feels to them like their mind is being put in a strait jacket, or that their milk is being laced with sedatives. Every time they go to school they must, in the words of one student, "power down."
"It's not attention deficit--I'm just not listening! I believe our kids will start listening again when we begin to listen, and to value their passions and developing skills."
Some chapter titles:
"What Kids Are Learning (On Their Own)"
"Economics and Business Lessons for a 10-Year-Old From a Computer Game"
"How Kids Learn To Cooperate In Video Games"
"Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning" How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids For 21st Century Success--and How You Can Help! by Marc Prensky
Click on the title above for the link.
A profoundly counter-culture case FOR video games and how they help kids (and adults) learn. He describes kids as being Digital Natives while adults are Digital Immigrants, and how Immigrants teaching Natives causes problems. It's a compelling idea. Our kids have been born into technology while we have had to adapt to it.
Some Quotes:
"But perhaps the most important lesson you'll learn is how to augment and improve what your children are learning, by having conversations--that they want to have--about their games.
"I strongly believe that there is great benefit to all parties, young and old, from understanding more about this phenomenon that so engages our young people."
"WheneverI go to school I have to 'power down'" -- a student.
"Today's game-playing kid enters the first grade able to do and understand so many complex things--from building, to flying, to reasoning--that the curriculum they are given feels to them like their mind is being put in a strait jacket, or that their milk is being laced with sedatives. Every time they go to school they must, in the words of one student, "power down."
"It's not attention deficit--I'm just not listening! I believe our kids will start listening again when we begin to listen, and to value their passions and developing skills."
Some chapter titles:
"What Kids Are Learning (On Their Own)"
"Economics and Business Lessons for a 10-Year-Old From a Computer Game"
"How Kids Learn To Cooperate In Video Games"
posted by Zany Mom at 7:33 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for stopping by.
I taught high school for years and have strongly held beliefs about how we have to provide choice and latitude in schooling rather than a restricted one size fits all mentality. Technology is a part of that.
Teachers and curriculum are always blamed.
The issue is that the world is changing and we have to reexamine how we react to the change... and the problem is that because everyone went to school at one time - they are all experts ESPECIALLY if they are in politics...
JMHO
Good luck plugging away at book two.
Those that keep writing and persevere are the ones published. I believe this also...
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