[apple] Opening seminar

• Blogging from an apple seminar at the Doubletree
• Trends of the freshman class of 2005
• Kids changing into a new way of thinking
• Millenial statistics
• Community is a digital place of common interest, not just a shared physical space.
• Kids come to school with different expectations and needs.
• 90% of kids are online
• Pew Internet and American Life Project
  
• 6.5 hours a day using electronic media - kids
• Marc Prensky - Is the system no longer designed to reach the people we need to teach?
• Prensky's blog
• Where do we work? 1998 - the office
• 2005- Starbucks
• The World Is Flat - Tom Friedman
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• 1998 - The classroom
• 2005 - Anytime anyplace learning
• Final report of the Laptops for learning taskforce - FL
  
• Digital native / Digital immigrants