handouts.davidwarlick.com
Second Life libraries
Prepare kids for a future we cannot describe
Unpredictable Future
A Whole New Mind - Richard Florida & Daniel Pink
Increase in creative arts jobs - music, art, entertainment - a new visual or auditory experience
Able to learn what you need to know to do what you need to do
Need to make it a national priority to get everyone connected. Other countries already have.
wombat - waste of money, brains, and time
Gaming in education - Sim City - content creators more important than programers
Players develop the game
Video games as learning engines
Machinima - create movies and videos within a game
Information is a raw material - what you can do with it, make it better, more valuable, more impressive - remix content.
New York Times web site -1.0 web site
Digg News - 2.0 web site - viewers decide what is on the front page
what does it mean to be literate? - more than just a successful reader
Wikipedia - is it reliable? This article may not be accurate, frequently vandalized,
Networked Students
Information Literate
Anatomy of the Long Tail - products - Rhapsody, Amazon, Netflix - new digital bazaar that makes information available that would not have been available 5 years ago - won't sell enough to make it to the book stores, movies stores, etc.
Books published less than an hour after finished writing. Printed on demand. Lulu.com
Students more literate than their teachers - 64% have already published original digital information to a real audience
It's not who owns the content, but who can keep the audience
Networked Students
New Information Landscape
Unpredictable Future
Create a movie trailer that will sell the play to next year's seniors
Information abundant conditions
It's nt just literacy, It's learning literacy
not just literacy skill, literacy habits
learning lifestyle
We are not afraid - blog
Pictures that say "We are not afraid"
