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Students and Education in the 21 st Century

Students and Education in the 21 st Century. Kevin Branson. SDCCD’s Mission Statement. The mission of the San Diego Community College District is to provide accessible, high quality learning experiences to meet the educational needs of the San Diego community.

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Students and Education in the 21 st Century

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  1. Students and Education in the 21st Century Kevin Branson

  2. SDCCD’s Mission Statement • The mission of the San Diego Community College District is to provide accessible, high quality learning experiences to meet the educational needs of the San Diego community.

  3. What Is Our Student Population? According to Coomes and Debard (2004), “Four generations currently predominate on the nation’s college campuses” (p. 10). • Traditionalists (1925 – 1942) • Baby Boomers (1943 – 1960) • Generation X (1961 – 1981) • Millennials/Digital Natives (1982 – 2002) Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2002.

  4. What is the Millennial Generation? • The Millennial generation is the largest generation in U.S. history. Approx. 75% of our student population are Millennials. • Millennials are smart but impatient, wanting immediate results, and they expect to be able to choose how, where and what they learn (Carlson, 2005). • Millennials have grown up in an digital world and expect to use technology to their advantage in learning environments (Prensky, 2001). • Prensky (2001) referred to these students as “digital natives” and suggested that they are the first generation to grow up immersed in technology (p. 5). • Millennials, accustomed to the multitasking, connectivity, and a immediate-payoff world of their video games and online experience, are bored by many of the educational methods and strategies used in today’s classrooms (Bajt, 2011). • These demographic projections illustrates the necessity of understanding this generation’s values and beliefs in order to determine how to best educate its members.

  5. What does this mean? • Millennials are forced to disengage form their technology while in the traditional class setting having a negative effect on student access, success, retention, persistence and student learning outcomes.

  6. What are the Learning Characteristics? • Technology provides both opportunities and challenges to Millennials entering the classroom. • Technology can be used to provide the interactivity, instant feedback and individualistic approach Millennial students desire. • Instructors can allow students to participate in the creation of class curricula and teaching methods. • Provide learning experiences that allow Millennials to learn experientially, interactively and collaboratively. • Since students of this generation are tied to technology so much in their personal lives, it seems logical that Millennial students would prefer to use technology heavily in their education. • One method for integrating learning technology in the classroom is through the use of Course Management Systems (CMS).

  7. What Are Course Management Systems (CMS)? • The primary functions of CMSs are to organize and distribute course content, administer learning exercise or quizzes and track student progress (Daniels, 2009). • CMS software is often used to manage distant learning courses (Daniels, 2009). • Online courses and hybrid/blended learning use CMSs as learning delivery devices but are limited and rigid by themselves .

  8. What Are Web 2.0 Technologies? • Web 2.0 allow students the ability to use technology as a means to harness collective knowledge and enable students to be a participant in the learning process and helps students construct content knowledge. The ability to synthesize and construct course content knowledge helps students become more analytical thinkers. Web 2.0 brings into the classroom experiences such as interactivity, social interaction and cultural perspective necessary for active construction and harmonious knowledge (Rodrigues et al, 2010).

  9. Web 2.0 Advantages/Disadvantages ADVANTAGES • Students become part of the lesson • The world becomes the classroom • Collaboration and competition increases learning • The classroom is available 24/7 DISADVANTAGES • Computing resources must be available • Web resources can be vandalized or sabotaged • Plagiarism • Levels of Openness

  10. Research Question • What is our student population? • What is the Millennial generation? • Learning characteristics? • What are course management systems? • What are Web 2.0 technologies? • Advantages • Disadvantages

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