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Reaching net-generation learners with social technologies
- 1. Reaching net-generation learners with social technologies Maarten Cannaerts – DE NAYER
- 2. “ I find it very difficult to concentrate myself on boring courses.”
- 3. I'm sorry that I am apparently an inconvenience to your precious time, but you are my advisor and I'm pretty sure it is your job to clarify any misunderstandings that I might have….. maybe you should reconsider your role as an advisor…. I thought communicating with an actual person might be more helpful than trying to search for one particular answer in twenty pages of information. i dont mean too bother u but": Student Email and a Call for Netiquette BY DENISE D. KNIGHT AND NORALYN MASSELINK
- 4. Maarten Cannaerts and Greet Langie W&K – campus DE NAYER Department of Industrial Sciences Walter Lauriks K.U.Leuven Department of Physics and Astronomy www.linkedin.com/in/maartencannaerts www.slideshare.net/maartencannaerts [email_address]
- 7. Uses E-mail Uses Internet Knows Wikipedia Uses Wikipedia Knows blogs Reads blog(s) Writes blog(s) Knows social bookmarking (del.icio.us) Knows collaborative filtering Knows social networking (facebook) Uses social networking
- 8. Reaching net-generation learners with social technologies Maarten Cannaerts – DE NAYER
- 9. “ Net generation” learners Who are they? Are they really different? What can we do?
- 11. Who uses mail daily?
- 12. “ E-mail is for old people .”
- 14. FRAND, “The information age mindset” (2000)
- 15. A quiz with 7 questions… (disclaimer: sorry, no prize for the winner)
- 16. ................................................... are not technology Computers
- 17. ................................................... replaces television Internet
- 18. ................................................... is better than writing Typing
- 19. ................................................... is a way of life Multitasking
- 20. .............................. is more important than knowing Doing
- 21. ......................................................................................... is essential, everywhere and always Connectivity and communication
- 22. .............................. is preferred to conventional logic Nintendo Trial and error
- 23. TIRO –> teens and ICT, risks and opportunities
- 24. … 9 out of 10 does instant messaging; 18,2% has an own website, 40,7% a blog. About 50% claims to have an online profile page… (TIRO)
- 25. “ Infomania worse than marijuana”
- 27. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/10/quick_can_you_d.html Less than 40% of the -30 year olds knows his/her own phone number
- 28. Attention spa m : A condition resulting in a failure to process basic facts , due largely to having a mind full of useless information . Urban dictionary (word of the day)
- 30. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. M. Prensky
- 31. Education is what remains after what has been learned has been forgotten (B.F. Skinner)
- 35. “ Life in the fast lane”
- 38. Modern Times
- 40. Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
- 41. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
- 42. It doesn’t really matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle. When the sun goes up, you’d better start running. (The world is flat, Thomas Friedman)
- 43. eBay for software development?
- 44. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . (former Secretary of Education Richard Riley)
- 45. Viral marketing specialist Embedded lover Valorisation coordinator Technology marketing analyst Digital media consultant E-marketeer Search-engine optimiser Ambient technology expert
- 46. We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. Marshall McLuhan
- 48. Is “the net generation” different, or are they just adapting (better) to a different and changing world?
- 49. It’s not my problem!
- 50. It’s getting our problem: We are training engineers in a changing world Adding more content to the curriculum isn’t going to help (msn) The students don’t want to learn what we want Can we show them the relevance?
- 53. Creepy Treehouse Effect
- 54. Creepy Treehouse: A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids. http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/
- 57. What can we do?
- 59. Stories, multimedia (video/ audio…) Trigger more senses http://www.brainrules.net/attention
- 60. Make the learners more autonomous I want to choose my tools and methods I skype, you skype, we all skype
- 61. Open up the learning Weblogs, anyone?
- 62. (been there, done that)
- 63. We’ve been doing this! Adapting to the net generation = adapting to a changing world thinking about good education attracting external experts, making learners autonomous, using many different instructional techniques…
- 64. www.zazzle.com
- 66. What can we do?
- 67. What did we do?
- 68. What’s a wiki to you? Wiki is my middle name! Wiki – hmm… heard of it Wiki? Pedia?
- 78. 80% claims having good search-skills, but barely 50% does quality control on the search results (Mediappro)
- 79. “ High horsepower, poor steering” (OECD – Understanding the brain)
- 85. ‘ Work’ shop
- 86. “ Net generation” learners Who are they? Are they really different? What can we do?
- 93. The Personal Learning Environment?