Tony Ryan
Web 2.0 Intelligence
Need to explicitly teach listening
Clock Partners - find someone to be your 12, 2, 6, and 9 oclock partners. Write their names next to the time on their clock.
Second Life - global footprint concept, can benefit NZ. People are making a living out of SL - huge economy is establishing
You Tube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Oh My News (Korea - citizen journalism),
go2web20.net = all web2 applications
The wisdom of crowds - the group mind is becoming more crucial
Does your school have a team learning environment for this 'new breed'
Life Ethic vs Work Ethic... learning from others and not staying in a job forever
Web3 - Tony's guess 2010 - 2012 Avatar synchronisation, Ubiquitous computer - eg wearable technology (eg chips in clothing), Nano technology 2013/2014 - nanobots etc
Web4 2025 Tony's guess - but could vary everyday cyberlife, luddites, living online as well as offline, teleporting etc, download entity onto web (2030), 3D projections etc, overlap between human and cyborg, human/robot interface, walking brains. First century when we'll have an overlap between human and machine.
Collaboration?
First Life is still important... we will still be human.
180 Degree dialogue: one choose yes and one choose no, have topic and defend argument, then after time and then swap viewpoint.
Neo-millennials (born about 1992 onwards)
6 degrees of separation, perhaps in NZ only 3 degrees of separation due to smaller population
Power of 100 - politicians read something and assume that another 100 people believe that too
Need to partly have these web2 environments in the classroom
Personal resilience - need this even in online environments, very important (eg cyber bullying), "NZ has the best cyber bullying policy in the world"
Resilient people bounce back from adversity - test of human character
Red light thinking & green light thinking - good thinking encourages chn to drop the red light thinking and adopt the green light
Less resilient people focus on problems
Resilient people cope with stress easier
EUSTRESS is good for us, arises from motivating situations, eg giving a speech, giving a talk
DISTRESS - created by situations out of your control
HYPERSTRESS - also known as burnout, very serious occurs when overloaded with distress situations, eats at the soul.
- loss of control
- disturbed sleep
- disordered eating patterns
- persistent tiredness/apathy
- emotional volatility
Cope with the downtimes so you can enjoy the uptimes
Self worth - self esteem is very shallow, self worth matters more. Believe in yourself and model this to young people.
Stress breaks - not just 4 times a year during holidays! - need to de-stress over 365 days of a year.
How do kids de-stress today?
Two groups on the planet - you and everybody else. Need to have a 50/50% relationship between time for yourself and time for everybody else.
Support online use with skills taught offline
Social awareness: encourage mentoring across year levels (kids coaching kids), solution-based projects, active citizenships opportunities.
Connect with schools in other countries, kids helping kids
http://schoolaid.org/ - project to change the world, collaborative ventures etc
Team dynamics - working together, kids don't care about race, religion, culture.
See Mindlinks book from Tony for ideas for use within the classroom.
Brain doesn't stop growing and developing until 24 (females), males 24/25.