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- Probably the most important thing

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for kids growing up today

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is the love of embracing change.

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The catch for preparing students

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for the 21st century workforce

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is how do you get kids[br]that have curiosity,

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and a questing disposition.

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We have called in the past[br]the gaming disposition

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'cause if you look at the disposition

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of hard core gamers, such[br]as World of Warcraft,

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massive multiplayer games, the[br]surprising things you find,

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contrary to what people think,

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is these kids first of all are incredibly

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bottom line oriented.

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They want to be measured[br]because they want to see

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how much they're improving, and in fact,

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the most common mantra of a real gamer

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is if I ain't learning, it ain't fun.

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- I don't think any kid[br]is born digitally native.

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I think kids are born consuming media,

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but I don't think kids[br]are born producing media,

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so almost any kid that you look at

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and say oh wow this is a[br]great user of digital media,

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you can trace back.

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There's a parent, there's[br]a, you know, program,

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there's something that inspired them

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and developed them.

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- You know, part of the opportunity here

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is learning the content which is very much

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the 20th century idea around education,

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but in 21st century,[br]it's learning the tools

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and the skills of remaking that content

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and becoming the creator and the producer.

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- We know that the[br]learning outside of school

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matters tremendously for[br]the learning in school,

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so a lot of what we're trying to say

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about kids in formal[br]learning with new media

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is part of an already existing set

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of understandings that educators have

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of the importance of the home environment,

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for the peer environment,[br]for the community,

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for learning that happens in schools.

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The question is how can we be more active

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about linking those two together?

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- We just assumed when[br]we opened the school

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that digital media would be[br]available at all moments,

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and we have a technology philosophy

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around bring it out when we need it

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and put it away when we don't need it.

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We have a wireless building,

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the kids use laptops,[br]and the reason we do that

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is so that we can put them away

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when it's actually not[br]the best tool for them

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to be learning with.

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- We find when we talk[br]about 21st century skills,

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people often reduce them[br]to skills for the workplace

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and skills involving technology,

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and we really are thinking[br]about skills for creativity,

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for civic engagement, for social life,

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the full range of[br]experiences that young people

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will be involved in in the future.

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- I think for teachers and[br]schools and classroom learning,

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there's still an incredibly[br]important role to play

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which is about giving kids access

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across the board to a[br]baseline set of standards,

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literacies, expectations[br]about what they need

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to participate in contemporary society

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to be reflective, and[br]to also take opportunity

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of the fact that you[br]really have kids and adults

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in a shared space that's[br]safe, that's sanctioned,

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that gives kids an opportunity[br]to reflect on things

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in their everyday life[br]that's not just about them

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being immersed in it all the time,

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so I think there are incredibly[br]functions for schools.

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What we're saying by[br]evaluating in formal learning

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is not that we should[br]abandon formal learning,

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but that we should get[br]those working together

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in a much more coordinated way.

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