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Alan November Discussion
==Group Five== # Objective: What stood out for you in Alan November’s presentation? -we have to teach students to use the medium effectively. # Reflective: How does the information given connect with your own experiences? # Interpretive: What needs do you see resulting? # Decisional: What has to happen to address these needs with respect to the public you serve? What is your own role? **Key Points from the Alan November Presentation** * The real work for teachers isn’t so much about technology, as about redesigning assignments. * Rethink the Curriculum: ** More demanding ** More rigorous ** More motivating ** More global * We have to redefine reading * Reading on the Internet is a different skill set from reading print * People do not bring their critical thinking skills to the next mediun - Marshall McLuhan * We must teach children the architecture of the Internet... the structure of information * Once it’s on the Internet, it’s always on the Internet * Information on the Internet is in constant movement * There is any version of the truth on the Internet * Adults are no longer the primary teacher of the most powerful medium ever invented * Student assignments should be globalized * The wild and Wiki world of school work demands changes to assessment * Learning must start from within * First we make the media, and then the media make us. - Marshall McLuhan **Final Discussion**