The Digital GenerationNick HodgeProfessional Geek, Microsoft AustraliaSlide version 1.2

Who is Nick Hodge?

http://nickhodge.com Top 100 Bloggers in Australia, http://on10.net/

21+ years of IT Industry (including Apple, Adobe)Grad Dip Tech Mgmt, MBA (Tech Mgmt), La Trobe

3rd Wave and 4th Wave of ComputingGlobal Connectivity is transforming life & work

History: language, writing, printing press, internetNow at Microsoft

Microsoft is at the pivot-point of many technologiesMicrosoft technology is a part of our daily lives

What is a Professional Geek?

1974 & 2007Description Percentage1974 2007

Total employed 76.2% 5,902,000 10,397,800

Male 46.8% 3,890,100 5,709,000

Female 130.7% 2,012,000 4,641,400

Total employed by age

15-19 years 31.6% 547,700 720,600

20-24 45.2% 782,700 1,136,700

25-34 77.8% 1,257,500 2,236,300

35-44 146.0% 987,600 2,429,500

45-54 131.0% 984,200 2,273,900

55-59 161.8% 320,300 838,700

60-64 117.2% 210,000 456,100

65-over 214.6% 73,800 232,200

Total employed by sector

Agriculture, forestry, fishing -8.7% 404,800 369,500

Mining 89.2% 73,800 139,600

Manufacturing -22.6% 1,374,300 1,064,200

Electricity, gas and water supply -17.3% 104,100 86,100

Construction 89.8% 506,300 961,000

Wholesale trade 21.6% 376,900 458,400

Retail trade 90.4% 786,100 1,497,100

Transport and storage 51.3% 313,400 474,200

Communications 43.8% 130,700 187,900

Government admin and defence 91.3% 250,500 479,100

Health and community services 43.9% 746,700 1,074,200

Recreational, personal, other services

74.7% 388,500 678,900

Sourcecrikey.com.auABS

Microsoft Australia: Education

Unlimited Potential (UP)US$250million, 5 year program

Partners-in-Learning It encompasses several programs through which Microsoft is

committing $10 million in cash and resources over five years Innovative Teachers Network, Award

A program that supports excellence in integrating ICT into the curriculum. Teachers can visit our secure online portal for resources, professional development and collaboration tools.

Microsoft co-sponsor of VITTA 2007 Awards

Microsoft Partners in Learning: Victoria

Creating centres for ICT best practice

CeLL started in 2005 with 28 primary and secondary schools across Victoria. Each received professional learning via conferences and leadership forums, with opportunities to explore emerging technologies such as PDAs and interactive white boards.

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21ST CENTURY LEARNING: CONNECTIONS

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As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.

As Clay Shirky points out, “All that stuff the elders said about rock and roll? They pretty much nailed it. Miscegenation, teenagers running wild, the end of marriage!”

The Digital Generation Gap

Let’s think about Elvis for a moment“Big media no longer controls the conversation”The size and impact of Live Messenger

90% of 90%Stats:

Myspace: >100 million users YouTube: >100 million clips watched dailyBlogs: >70 million

Digital Literacy Challenge Students: Emotional maturityAnyone older than 25: Digital skills

Myspace

“If you are not in MySpace, you don’t exist”55% of online teens aged 12-17 have created profiles on social

network sites with 64% of teens 15-17Younger boys are more likely to participate than younger girls

(46% vs. 44%) but older girls are far more likely to participate than older boys (70% vs. 57%)

Digital Identity ownership

Source: boyd, danah. (in press) “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, Identity Volume (ed.David Buckingham).

Self-Learning Resources

Digital Generation Gap “Difference of Opinion” : Growing Up in the Digital Age

http://www.linkedin.com/Professional Social Networking

Edublogs, live.comhttp://edublogs.org/http://www.live.com/

RSS Feeds From education.au: What is RSS?

Scale Quality Education Outcomes

Individualised learning once produced fine craftsmen. The master taught the apprentice. Only a few had the time or opportunity to gain the depth of knowledge needed to achieve excellence, and excellence was rare. Then industrial-age minds saw scale economies in teaching many people at once. Learning became institutionalised, and the individual either adapted to the teacher and the standard material being taught or missed out. Now...learning can again become individualised, and again produce excellence.

Australian Commission on Technology and Adult Learning

Book to Read:

The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman

Learning how to learn is critical

CQ+PQ > IQ

Importance of Education in a flat world

Multi-Literacies for 21st Century

Global AwarenessFinancial, Economic & Business LiteracyCivic Literacy

Ref: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

21st Century Teachers Understand

Technology does not replace teachersJust as “the world is becoming flat” : this impacts teaching

Alliances inside and outside teaching fraternityTechnology generates a glut of information, but it may not be

pedagogically wiseTeachers become pedagogical design experts, using technology

(Fullan 1998)

Personalised Learning Experiences

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