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title: "A New Image for New Students"
date: 2007-03-20
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/03/20/a-new-image-for-new-students/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# A New Image for New Students

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My students are different. Not from yours, but from the ones that came before them. They are desperate to connect everything together: disciplines, ideas, home and school. They need a way of bridging the gaps that many adults artificially create. We must help them to connect. I don’t have any five point plans in this podcast, but I do have a good example from a student about tormenting substitute teachers. Have a listen.

I am looking for a new image to help explain this phenomenon of connection as a reaction to the increasingly splintered world that they experience. If you have any grand ideas about this, please drop me a line at benjamin.wilkoff@dcsdk12.org.

- 00:00:00: Today’s Students vs. Yesterday’s Students
[The Horizon Report](http://www.nmc.org/horizon/)
- 00:03:28: Connected Learning?
[Nicholas Negroponte’s Necc 2006 Keynote](http://web.mac.com/educationconferences/iWeb/NECC%202006/NECC%202006%20Podcast/C7402553-5F0A-418F-B059-2AD580443BB0.html)
- 00:05:13: Seeing a Splintered World
[Moose’s Blog Post about Substitute Teachers](http://moose.learnerblogs.org/2007/03/15/substitutes/)
- 00:08:43: The Metaphor for Connection
- 00:11:32: Asking for Help and Wrap-Up
[My Blog](http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/)

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