Today I led a workshop for the Catechetical Leadership Association for the Diocese of Des Moines (CLADD). These parish catechetical leaders and I explored how to engage the “net generation” in their faith through the tools of the new media. Below are my slides and notes for the event as well as additional resources and recommendations for further reading.
Thanks again to John Gaffney of the Diocese of Des Moines for the invitation and to the great catechetical leaders I met today — thank you for your participation and for making me feel welcome among you!
Slides
Notes
My notes from today’s presentation are available as a PDF file.
Web Resources
- Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants by Marc Prensky (PDF)
- Do They Really Think Differently? by Marc Pensky (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
- Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
- Marc Pensky, Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning
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”
Tools
- Vine (Mobile Video Sharing)
- Instagram (Mobile Photo Sharing)
- Tumblr (Microblogging)
- WordPress (Blogging)
- FlockNote (Parish Communications)
- Animoto (Video Slide Shows)
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