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A Glimpse at the Students of Today

A Glimpse at the Students of Today. Prepared by Dena Faust for USDLA conference 2008. “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” _Marc Prensky, 2001. So, who are these students?. They are the. Millennials. They are the. Net Generation.

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A Glimpse at the Students of Today

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  1. A Glimpse at the Students of Today Prepared by Dena Faust for USDLA conference 2008

  2. “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” _Marc Prensky, 2001 Marc Prensky, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

  3. So, who are these students?

  4. They are the Millennials

  5. They are the Net Generation

  6. They are the Digital Natives

  7. Why do we call them digital natives?

  8. By the time students enter college today, they will have spent …

  9. Over 10,000 hours playing video games Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants

  10. Over 10,000 hours using a cell phone Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants

  11. 20,000 hours watching TV Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants

  12. and will have sent over 200,000 emails and IMs by the time they graduate college Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants

  13. They have never had to …

  14. Dial a phone

  15. Play a Record

  16. Or get up to change the TV channel

  17. Sadly Kermit is old enough to have been their father.

  18. These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material Lee Rain, Director Pew Internet and American Life Project

  19. For the common Net Gener: Computers aren’t technology Reality is no longer real Doing is more important than knowing Multitasking is a way of life Staying connected is essential There is no tolerance for delays Consumer and creator are blurred The Internet is better than TV Jason Frand, The Information Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education,” EDUCAUSEReview 35, no.5 (September/October 2000): 15-24

  20. Staying connected isessential

  21. Are you helping them stay connected?

  22. Is your learning environment providing a place for this type of interactivity?

  23. These are the technologies they use everyday.

  24. Why not use the tools that they are already using to engage and teach them?

  25. The fact is that even if you are the most engaging old-style teacher in the world, you are not going to capture most of our students’ attention the old way. “ - Prensky 2005 Prensky, Marc 2005 Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand

  26. “Engage me or enrage me.” Prensky, Marc 2005 Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand

  27. Your students may be sending SUBTLEmessages all around the classroom

  28. Our digital immigrant instructors, who speak a language of the pre-digital age, are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language. __Prensky, 2001 Marc Prensky, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

  29. References • Oblinger, Diana (2003). Boomers Gen-Xers & Millennials: Understanding the new students. EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2003, 37-47. • Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennials rising (New York: Vintage Books, 2000). • Prensky, Marc“ Digital natives, digital immigrants, Part II: Do they really think differently? "On the Horizon, vol. 9, no. 6 (December 2001), pp. 15–24; available from http://marcprensky.com/writing. • Jones, Steve "The internet goes to college: How students are living in the future with today's technology" (Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet & American Life Project, September 15, 2002), http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=71. • Oblinger, Diana and Oblinger, James L, Educating the net generation (Educause, 2005). • Prensky, Marc (2005). Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand [Electronic version]. EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2005, 61-63. • “Where We Begin” provided by Kathy Reynolds under the Creative Commons license. More of this artist’s music can be found at http://www.podsafeaudio.com/.

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