Chapter 7. Understanding the Nouns, or Tools

GUIDING QUESTIONS

1. Am I familiar with all the types of tools available?

2. Can I guide students to the right tools for the skills they are learning?

3. How do I get more information when I need it?

In this chapter Prensky is giving us a several list of many nouns or (tool) that could be useful in the class depending of the subject the students’ needs to learn.

The following tools are the ones that Hames an I choose for our subjects:

ARTS:

3D (Three-Dimensional) Printers.

VERBS supported by these tools:

exploring, experimenting, modeling, designing, innovating,

tinkering, making, presenting.

Animation Tools:

Adobe ,

. VERBS supported by these

tools: writing, creating, designing, making.

Comics Creation Tools: This software makes it easy for

students to create and tell stories in the multiple-panel style of

comic books. Mashon.com,

Flash: This software program sold by Adobe, is the tool now

used for almost all the animation found on the Web, and the free

Flash Player is built in to every new web browser

ENGLISH

Spelling and Grammar Tools: 

Microsoft Word and other word-processing programs are often taken for granted.

Audiobooks: 

VERBS supported by these tools:

reading, listening, finding, reflecting, thinking critically, personalizing.

Big Think: 

(www.bigthink.com) creates, and posts short videos from well-known experts in a

variety of fields.

ARTS AND ENGLISH

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) These games involve

combinations of computer and real-life elements that require players to solve complex puzzles and problems by combining information from a wide variety of sources. 
VERBS supported by these tools: analyzing, exploring, finding, listening, reading, searching, verifying, watching.

Collaboration Tools: These software tools enable individuals and teams at various computers to work together from anywhere in the world.

Social Networking Tools: Facebook (cf), MySpace, Twitter (cf), and LinkedIn, as well as virtual worlds such as Second Life and the young peoples’ worlds of Whyville and Club Penguin. Ning (cf) is an example of a social networking tool that can be created and customized by students and teachers.