Ian Jukes Interview

Oct. 2, 2008
Ian Jukes Interview - Are students fundamentally different?
Physically mature earlier
Brains are adapting to new technologies - screenagers
Digital natives
They speak dfl - digital first language
We are digital immigrants - we come from a time before digital images
We speak dsl - digital second language
Brains have been effected.
Brain rearranging through experiences and length of experiences.
IQ rises and falls through stimulation
Neuroplasticity - ongoing restructuring of the brain
Brain is plastic
Intensive exposure - several hours a day, several days a week
Watching tv over several hours a day, several days a week changes the brain
Video games - multiplayer online games
Brain is like a tree - grows, trimmed - use it or lose it. Areas not used disappear.
Digital changing kids brains. Visual and auditory
Process things differently
Visual cortex - visual processing skills increase with 10 hours of video game playing
Students can retain up to 90% of visual images.
Eye processes photographs 60% faster than text.
Today's student far more inclined to visual than to text
Ignore right side of page
Red, neon green, burnt orange - notice most
Notice black least
Visual or visual/kinestentic learners
Digital kids process ideas differently
We need to present lessons more visually - have them present their knowledge visually.
Engage them, hook them.
They learn differently, but we teach them the same way we were taught.
Digital learners - quick, multimedia sources
Prefer parallel tasks - multitasking
Prefer pictures, sound, color, video before text
Text provides more detail for something learned by an image
Begin with visual, add text afterwords
reading, writing, arithmetic and art - very important
Random access - links
Hypertext - click around
Prefer to link simultaneously with many others
Mass collaboration
Prefer to learn just in time
Constant affermation - awarded in games every 7-10 seconds
Prefer - relevant, fun, intellectual, problem solving
Play is work
Read "Zits" cartoon
Play video games with them
Look at MTV - visual commenting
Write a wiki
Create a blog or podcast
Online role playing game - Second world
Myspace account
Audioeducation web site
Understanding digital kids
Teaching for Tomorrow - McCain
We need to acknowledge that these kids are different
Games in learning