Partnering+Pedagogy

=Teaching Digital Natives. What’s Your Role? Partner or Lecturer?= =Abstract from= By [|Michelle Aubrecht] | Published: May 26, 2011

Presnsky uses the terms nouns and verbs to designate skills versus tools (please see chart below (p. 50). He explains that “verbs are the skills that students need to learn, practice and master….verbs are, …the underlying learning, and pedagogy is typically about the verbs, that is, how to provide students with the subject-specific and general skill they need” (p. 45) Nouns are the tools that are used to learn and practice the verbs or skills, including hardware and software –in other words, the technologies that can be used to learn and teach such as social networking sites, podcasts, You Tube, etc. For example, if the “verb” is Researching and Managing Information as it relates to watching and listening, the “nouns” would be podcasts, You Tube, Big Think, TED Talks, video search engines, speed-up tools for audio and video clips, text-to-speech programs. (p. 48). Consider the following tables/types of pedagogy while observing in your school. Prensky also provided two tables to help find a path from a telling pedagogy to a partnering pedagogy. Record different types of teaching that you see along Prensky's continuum. (Charts from Prensky, 2010, p. 169-170)

Be ready to share your one page of notes in class on Sept. 11th.