MARC’S ESSAYS & ARTICLES
- RECENT
- CLASSICS
- DIGITAL WISDOM
- STUDENTS/DIGITAL NATIVES
- TECHNOLOGY
- CURRICULUM
- PEDAGOGY
- GAMES AND SIMULATIONS
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A Better Way to Home-Educate Your Kids During Coronavirus Time 2020, ThriveGlobal
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NOW IS OUR OPPORTUNITY FOR REAL CHILD-CENTERED EDUCATION 2020, ThriveGlobal
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A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS AND SCHOOLS—IF THEY DON’T WASTE IT 2020, ThriveGlobal
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OUR NEW FRONTIER DEMANDS UNIQUENESS 2020, ThriveGlobal
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KIDS NEED L. E. G. O. TOO! 2019, ThriveGlobal
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BEYOND GRETA 2019, Medium
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A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON KIDS: The first ever iCAN Children’s Global Summit 2019, Medium
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FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR 2019, India Book Review
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“CHIP-IN” 2019, Medium
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WHY “LIFE-LONG LEARNING” GETS ONLY PARTIAL CREDIT 2019, Medium
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THE “JOB TO BE DONE” BY EDUCATION 2019, Medium
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WHEN WILL OUR EMPOWERED KIDS ARISE? 2019, Medium
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THE “TECH AS CLOTHING” METAPHOR 2019, Medium
- Real-World Project / Empowerment Education (2018)
- SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND EDUCATION: How Re-visiting Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolution” can point us to the education of tomorrow (2018, SNS Newsletter)
- A New Culture (2018, Veja magazine, Brazil)
- Do We Really Need-Dedicated Ed-Tech? No We Don’t! (2018, EdtechDigest )
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World Changers: A bold new educational paradigm is emerging that literally has the power to help students change the world.( 2017 Child Magazine, Australia)
- Civilisation-level change in education—From “improving individuals” to “bettering their world” 2017
- The Changing Ends and Paradigm for Education in the World 2017
- Unleashing the Power of 21st_Century Kids-2016
- Our New Globally Empowered Kids 2016
- Education to Better Their World 2016
- Technology As Mask? 2015
- VUCA 2014
- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants — A New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids
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Digital Wisdom (H. Sapiens Digital) — Moving beyond Natives and Immigrants (in Innovate, Feb-Mar 2009)– for version in Spanish, see International
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Search Vs. Research — Or, the Fear of The Wikipedia Overcome by New Understanding for a Digital Era
- Our Brains Extended (in Educational Leadership, March, 2013)
- Why We Need Digital Wisdom (for Qualcomm Spark, Nov 2012)
- From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning (Introduction to book from Corwin Press, 2012)
- Digital Wisdom (H. Sapiens Digital) — Moving beyond Natives and Immigrants (in Innovate, Feb-Mar 2009)– for version in Spanish, see International
- What Does It Mean To Be a Digital Native (CNN, Dec. 4 2012)
- Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner – How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. (in Edutopia , June 2008)
- To Educate, We Must Listen — Reflections from Travelling the World
- Listen to the Natives –(in Educational Leadership, December 2005/January 2006 | Vol. 63 No. 4 )
- Engage Me or Enrage Me — What Today’s Learners Demand ( in Educause Review, Sept./Oct. 2005)
- The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native — Don’t try to educate kids without knowing about it. (A work in progress – please email me comments and additions.)
- Twitch Speed –Reaching Younger Workers Who Think Differently
- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants — a New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids
- Do They REALLY Think Differently? — Neuroscience Says Yes
- Digital Immigrant Remedial Vocabulary– How Many Do You Know?
- Overcoming Educators’ Digital Immigrant Accents: A Rebuttal to an Online Critic
- Capturing the Value of “Generation Tech” Employees — From strategy+business Magazine (note: site requires a brief free registration)
- Time Travel as Punishment: What our kids REALLY hate (in Educational Technology, Jan-Feb 2013)
- What ISN’T Technology Good At? Part II–Passion! (in Educational Technology, Nov-Dec 2012)
- What ISN’T Technology Good At? Part I–Empathy! (in Educational Technology, Sept-Oct 2012)
- Trivia vs. Power: Let’s be clear on exactly how we are using technology in education (in Educational Technology, Jul-Aug 2012)
- Before Bringing in New Tools, You Must First Bring in New Thinking (in Amplify.com, July 2012)
- Eliminating the App Gap (In Educational Technology, Jan-Feb 2012)
- Which College Will Be The First to Go Bookless? (In The Chronicle of Higher Education, November, 2011)
- A Huge Leap for the Classroom (in Educational Technology, Nov-Dec 2011)
- What a School District CTO Should Know — More than just technology, a CTO needs to know what is going on. (in Educational Technology,2010)
- Technology Turns Disposable — Forget amortizing — buy new every year! (in Educational Technology, 2010)
- The Longer View: Why You Tube Matters — Why it is so important, why we should all be using it, and why blocking it hurts our kids’ education. (in On The Horizon , 2010)
- Should a 4-year-old have an iPhone? — Absolutely! (on the Handheld Learning site, 2009)
- Who’s in Charge? — Who Should Set and Control IT Policy in Our Schools? (In Educational Technology, May-June 2007)
- Adopt and Adapt — School Technology for the 21st Century (in Edutopia, December 2005 )
- Mobile Phone Imagination– Using Devices Kids Love for Their Education (in Vodaphone Receiver )
- A New Business Model for 21st Century Educational Software — Education is a Public Service, Not a Place to Make a Buck
- 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
- What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? – Almost Anything! – Innovate!version
- Our Greatest Untapped Resource –Putting Unused Computer Cycles To Work For Education
- Proposal for Educational Software Development Sites — An Open Source Tool To Create The Learning Software We Need
- New Business Models for Learning –We need them badly…and we have to invent them
- But The Screen Is Too Small — No It Isn’t. Why Cell Phones – Not Computers – Should Be The Future of Educational Technology
- Open Collaboration — A Better Way to Develop Educational Software
- The Death of Command and Control? — The “Scribe-Tribe” and Bottom-up Transformation
- Teaching the Right Stuff–Not Yesterday’s Stuff or Today’s, but Tomorrow’s (In Educational Technology, MayJune 2012)
- Khan Academy (in Educational Technology, Aug-Sept 2011)
- The Reformers are Leaving our Schools in the 20th Century: Why most U.S. school reformers are on the wrong track, and how to get our kids’ education right for the future (in SNS Newsletter 2011)
- Open Letter to the Obama Administration (in Educational TechnologyMar-Apr 2009)
- Prensky’s Five Skills Framework for Problem-Solving (not the 21st century skills you might expect)
- Who should take the SAT? Why not the educators? (in Greentree Gazette,August 2008)
- The True Twenty-first Century Literacy Is Programming (In Edutopia, Feb 2008)
- New College Courses for the 21st Century (in Greentree Gazette,September 2008)
- Open Letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — There is one lasting impact that ONLY YOU can make
- The Prensky Challenge — Who will be the first to challenge, rather than blame, our kids?
- Innovation,Experimentation & Courage (In Educational TechnologyJanuary-February 2014)
- Future-cation:A new way to describe our goal (In Educational TechnologyNovember-December 2013)
- On Learning: For any teaching to reliably and consistently produce the results we want, we still have a lot to learn about learning. (In On The Horizon)
- Simple Changes in Current Practices May Save Our Schools (in ETC Online Journal , 2010)
- What I Learned Recently in New York City Classrooms — How to keep all learners busy and engaged all the time (to be published in 2010)
- Blame Our Young? Or Use Their Passion! — We can do better than just laying the responsibility for solving our nation’s problems on the backs of our kids (an unpublished Op-Ed, 2010)
- Education as Rocket Science — And teachers as rocket scientists–who knew? (in Educational Technology, 2009)
- The Longer View: Why You Tube Matters — Why it is so important, why we should all be using it, and why blocking it hurts our kids’ education. (in On The Horizon , 2010)
- Make Those You Tubes! — Sharing is now a snap — and sharers learn faster. (in Educational Technology, 2009)
- Let’s Be “Digital Multipliers” (in Educational Technology Jan-Feb 2009)
- The Role of Technology in Teaching and the Classroom (in Educational Technology Nov-Dec 2008)
- Using Cell Phones for Exams (submitted to The Sydney Morning Herald,August 2008)
- Are you lecturing about nouns or facilitating learning with verbs? (in Greentree Gazette, July 2008)
- Turning On The Lights — Will we continue to trap our kids in the past? (in Educational Leadership , March 2008)
- Changing Paradigms — from “being taught” to “learning on your own with guidance” (In Educational Technology, July-Aug 2007)
- How to Teach With Technology — keeping both teachers and students comfortable in an era of exponential change (from BECTA’s Emerging Technologies for Learning , Vol 2 (2007))
- Simulation Nation — Inventive computer sims can turn dull lessons into hyperreal experiences — If we can get educators to use them. (In Edutopia, March 2007)
- The Rules Of Engagement – Prensky Interview on Sisimo.com (scroll down)
- On Being Disrespected — (In Educational Leadership )
- Search Vs. Research — Or, the Fear of The Wikipedia Overcome by New Understanding for a Digital Era
- If We Share, We’re Halfway There — We need to post on the Web everything we do or create that works
- 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
- What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? – Almost Anything! – Innovate!version
- Not Only The Lonely — Implications of “Social” Online Activities for Higher Education
- Evolving Instruction? Seven Challenges
- Students as Designers and Creators of Educational Computer Games — Who Else? (pub. online by Microsoft, 2007)
- In Educational Games COMPLEXITY MATTERS — Mini-Games are Trivial — but “Complex” Games Are Not
- List of Tools for Building [Learning] Games –Templates, Frames, Game Makers, Simple Engines, Prototyping Tools, Building Tools, Modding Tools, 3D Engines — All on one page (updates appreciated)
- Beyond the Lemonade Stand — Economics and Business Lessons for a 10-year-old From a Computer Game
- The Seven Games of Highly Effective People — How Game Playing Helps You Succeed in School, Work and Life
- How Kids Learn To Cooperate In Video Games — A Guide for Parents and Teachers
- “Modding” – The Newest Authoring Tool
- Really Good News About Your Children’s Video Games –They’re the best learning tools we have
- What Kids Learn That’s POSITIVE From Playing Video Games — Quite a bit, as it turns out…
- Escape from Planet Jar-Gon. Or, What Video Games Have To Teach Academics About Teaching and Writing : A Review of James Paul Gee’s “What Videogames Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy”
- Why Games Engage Us– 12 Reasons
- The Motivation of Gameplay– or, the REAL 21st Century Learning Revolution
- Types of Learning And Possible Game Styles–A Useful Chart
- Fun, Play and Games: What Makes Games Engaging? — Digital Game-Based Learning Chapter 5
- The Intellectual Arcade– A Great Training Concept
- ONLINE DISCUSSION: What Can Education Learn from the Video Game Industry? — Jim Gee, Chris Dede, Marc Prensky and a high school student
- Video Games and the Attack on America
- Simulation Nation — Inventive computer sims can turn dull lessons into hyperreal experiences — If we can get educators to use them. (In Edutopia, March 2007)
- Interactive Pretending –An Overview of Simulation
- Simulations : Are They Games?
- Why NOT Simulation
- Has Growing Up Digital and Extensive Video Game Playing Affected Younger Military Personnel’s Skill Sets? — A Paper Delivered at I/ITSEC 2003.
- True Believers: Digital Game-Based Learning in the Military — Digital Game-Based Learning Chapter 10
- DCSO: Incorporating Cyber-Gaming — A Paper Delivered at I/ITSEC 2002
- A Field Game Developer Corps — Is It Time For The “GameBees”?