ITEC Making Learning Meaningful for Your Millennial Students
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This document discusses meaningful learning for the millennial generation. It notes that millennials are confident and enjoy collaboration. They learn by doing, are accustomed to multimedia, and prefer typing to handwriting. Millennials are also accustomed to multi-tasking and blurring the lines between consumer and creator. The document suggests integrating readings, watchings, listenings and doings into lessons and engaging students actively with content. It advocates teaching students for their future rather than the past.
ITEC Making Learning Meaningful for Your Millennial Students
- 1. Leigh Zeitz University of Northern Iowa
- 4. #ITEC12
- 8. Positive and confident Can-do Attitude Flickr.com/rdecom
- 9. Structure Frequent Feedback Variety of Tasks Flickr.com/zeitz
- 10. Are Team Players Appreciate Diversity Enjoy Collaboration Flickr.com/ToGaWandering
- 11. Learn Work Play Flickr.com/ToGaWandering
- 15. Doing is more important than knowing Reality is no longer real Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than logic
- 16. Consumer and Creator are blurring Typing is preferred to handwriting
- 17. Multi-tasking is a way of life Buzzabouttechnolology.com
- 19. ReelStatic.com
- 20. PewInternet.com
- 22. TV watching Politics Reading newspapers Social networking Playing video games Religion Cell phone Parents married Text messages Tattoo High-paying job Piercing Appreciating diversity http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU
- 25. Born: 1981 Stay Connected Flickr.com/Andrew_Feinberg
- 26. Research-Based Methods Relevance Rationale Relaxed Rapport Dr. Christy Price
- 27. Integrate . . . Engage . . . Create! Jacobs, Olson, & Lammers, 2012
- 28. • U.S. Department of Ed • Fed. Comm. Commission • Publishing/Technology Corporations
- 29. LEAD Commission: Charting Our Transition to “Interactive Digital Textbooks”
- 30. Read Watch Listen Do
- 31. Readings Watchings Listenings Doings
- 32. Readings Read
- 33. Watchings Watch
- 35. Actively engaged with content Do Doings
- 37. Emerging Instructional Technologies Educational Technology and Design Seminar: Writing a Graduate Paper Selection and Integration of Instructional Technologies
- 38. Blog It
- 40. What would be your challenges? How can you be supported? What do you hope for an outcome? Will this improve learning? ???????????
- 41. We must teach our students for their tomorrows, NOT our yesterdays.
- 42. We must teach our students for their tomorrows, NOT our yesterdays.
Editor's Notes
- #2: To do:Create Blog Resources PageCreate Collaborative Google Docs Notes pageCreate Twitter Hashtag page
- #3: Lisa Dawley – Boise State Univ Skyped and 2nd Life
- #15: Computers are NOT technologyInternet is better than TV
- #27: Research-based Methods – Variety of active learning methods. Less lecture, more multimedia and collaborating with peers. Relevance – Meaningful to their lives. Connect course content to current cultureRationale – Not authoritarian. Need to have rationale for specific policies and assignments.Relaxed – Less formal environment. Informally interact with prof & one another. “Laid back”Rapport – Extremely relational. Adults show interest in them. Will pursue learning outcomes more readily when instructors connect with them on personal level. 24/7 teacher