Today I’m offering my talk “Evangelizing and Catechizing the ‘Net’ Generation” at the Indiana Conference for Catechetical Leadership. Below are my slides, notes, and resources for the session. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Slides
Notes
Web Resources
- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky (PDF)
- Do They Really Think Differently? by Marc Prensky (PDF)
- How Digital Technology Has Changed the Brain by Don Tapscott
- Life Support: What Young People Need in a Digital Age (PDF)
- Using Technology to Get Teens to Pray by Nick Senger
- Prayer Tools for Netizens by Nick Senger
- 8 Myths about Digital Natives by John Palfrey & Urs Gasser
- “Introduction to Using Tumblr in the Classroom”
- “To Kill A Mockingbird Meets the 21st Century” project
- The Future of Reading: Don’t worry. It might be better than you think by John Green
- Tapscott: Digital natives need tech-rich education by Laura Devaney (free registration required)
- Why no one cares about privacy anymore by Declan McCullagh
- Bishop Herzog’s address on social media
Books
- Eugene Gan, Infinite Bandwidth: Encountering Christ in the Media (Emmaus Road Publishing, 2010)
- Brandon Vogt, The Church and New Media (OSV, 2011)
- John Palfrey & Urs Gasser, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2010)
- Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World (McGraw Hill, 2008)
- Marc Prensky, Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning (Corwin, 2010)
- Jeff Jarvis, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
- Mary Byrne Hoffman, Catechesis in a Multi-Media World (Paulist Press, 2012)
Videos
- That Catholic Show
- Videos from Holy Name of Jesus Parish (Wayzata, MN)
- Ben Boelscher performing Steve Angrisano’s “Welcome Home”
- “The Prodigal Son” by HHHFilms
- Fr. Robert Barron: “Seven Great Qualities of a New Evangelizer”