Digital Natives, Mastering Our World (Scifire Learning)

Nature-centered learning at a two-room school in a redwood grove suggests a reconsidered lesson plan. Our Canyon setting allows testing of creative logic. The possibilities are explored on all levels, resulting in MeTech, a perspective that encourages the fostering of digital natives, comfortable with the future. When technology shadows art, art creates technology. From the oral culture of pre-school we can then advance to the written library that shapes abstract understanding. Visual logic, as pattern recognition and sequential causality, can lead to complex conceptual understanding. Layered architectural insight is the essence of education. Visual thought experiments that distill complexity to elemental simplicity make both learning and new futures possible. The digital dominates our new age. If we do not master it, it will master us. At present, technology has a 3-5 year life span; it's always on the verge of being outdated. We will soon move beyond the X/0, on/off stage of digital to quantum com- puting, where yes and no can exist simultneously. Are we ready?