Mini-Tutorial: Boom Cards
Boom Cards are interactive lessons designed by teachers. You can select from a variety of lessons or make lessons yourself to sell them.
Boyd and Prensky
What do you make of the (divergent) positions of Boyd and Prensky? What do you hear each of them saying about who youth are? Where do you stand on the “digital native” terminology? Boyd and Prensky both present the term “digital native” from different perspectives. Presnky explains that young people are growing up in digital work. He presents two frameworks: digital native and digital immigrant . Digital natives possess the knowledge of media and technology, understand these and possess technical skills. On the other hand, digital immigrants somehow disrupt digital natives and do not feel comfortable with technology. In my opinion, young people need to be in a learning environment that challenges them. They also need learning opportunities based on their interests to develop technical skills. Youth experiences and learning backgrounds need to be taken into consideration during the learning process. Youth learners need to be seen as producers...they need to be able to use their k...
Thanks so much for sharing this resource, Elsie! I never knew about Boom Cards before and I am curious to check them out. I appreciated the screencast that you created.
ReplyDeleteElsie, I love using Boom cards with my kids. I have not made any myself, but it is nice to use for a quick/fun review of skills that we are learning about
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