Marc Prensky

What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? – Almost Anything!

How to use the 1.5 billion computers already in our students’ and trainees’ pockets to increase learning, at home and around the world…

Here's some news for you to share with your parents and teachers: Video games might actually be good for you.…

Schools today face a serious challenge of preparing students with 21st century skills. Since the

report “A National at Risk” published by National Commission on Excellence in Education in 1983, many similar definitions from different sources have emerged. However, most definitions point to the same goal: that being technology literate is much more than just having good technology skills. It is learning core subjects with application of…

SAN FRANCISCO — The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.…

Successful Models for Using a Set of Digital Cameras in a College of Education…

Have you noticed lately, the increased number of movie characters lighting up on screen? Even though cigarette advertising on television has long ago been prohibited, and the Surgeon General's warnings about the dangers of tobacco use are clearly to be seen everywhere from billboards to posters and on cigarette packs, there is still lots of smoking in movies, especially…

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What percentage of American 8-18 year-olds have television sets in their

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14%…

French Impressionist painting…

People who call or email me about my school usually start the conversation with – “I tried so many books and methods and none of them have worked.” I am constantly checking the Internet for new systems and books and I have yet to find anything close to our course. Most of them are ridiculously primitive and inefficient. “Photographic Memory in 5 hours”, “Get a Photographic Memory”, “How To Develop A Photographic Memory”, “Super…

Numerous studies have established a relationship between thin ideal media content and disordered eating

patterns in women. Many of the images viewed in the media that endorse the thin ideal are digitally

manipulated or computer-created. This experiment compared college women’s visual…

Students learn many wonderful things through the communicative exploration of photography. As teachers, we often marvel at the honesty level that is revealed as our students communicate with photos. Perhaps it’s that they don’t fully realize that they are communicating at all. Hand a student a camera and ask them to take a photo of a specific object. Technically, you’ve just asked that student to communicate non-verbally,…

In 2006 the MacArthur Foundation launched a five-year initiative to determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life. As part of this initiative, Henry Jenkins, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of…

As teachers of learning disabled students, we are constantly in search of that one modality we can best plug-in to. Some students are auditory learners…others, tactile, while some are visual learners. The challenge is to find the best approach in identifying that strength, then finding many ways to tap into it.…