The 21st Century Learner

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The 21st Century Learner

• Summer 2005 Technology Serving Learning Institute

David Starrett
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Lets Have a Chat!

• Logon to the class OIS Chat
• Use the URL below
• Introduce yourself to your classmates
• Find the real name of a classmate who has the
  same favorite color that you do (their real
  name, not user1, etc.)

http//cstl.semo.edu/institute/chat
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Pop Quiz 1

• What does this mean? ROTFL
• Pneumonic for remembering the 5 plant cell types
  
• Reserve Officers Training Florida
• Record of True Foreign Languages
• Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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Bonus 1

• What do these chat acronyms stand for?
• LOL
• POS
• GNSTDLTBBB
• CUL8R
• KSUSHYGEMA

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Bonus 2

• What do these emoticons mean?
• -)
• -( 
• 5
• (((((name)))) 
• (())
• _at__ 

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Terminology

• Chat
• Blog, Blogging
• IM
• On-line
• To Google
• Text Messaging
• Multi-tasking
• 21st Century Learner

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Pop Quiz 2

• Use the Internet to answer this question in less
  than 15 seconds
• What actor/actress had a major supporting role in
  the Movies The Birds and Alien?

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Pop Quiz 3

• Web site comparisons
• Which of each pair of Web sites is designed for
  younger learners, which is designed for us?
• Web sites

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By age 21

• The average person will have.
• 10,000 hours video games
• 200,000 emails
• 20,000 hours TV
• 10,000 hours on a cell phone
• Under 5,000 hours reading

Prensky, 2003
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Children age 6 and under

• Spend 201 hours / day playing outside
• Spend 158 hours using computers
• Spend 40 minutes reading or being read to
• 48 of children have used a computer
• 27 4-6 year olds use a computer daily
• 39 use a computer several times a week
• 30 have played video games

Kaiser Family Foundation, 2003
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Computer Games

• SimCity 3000 Build and Manage your own City
• Story
• A nine and an 11-year old were talking in the car
  one day

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Runescape
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MS Rise of Nations
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Age of Empires
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Games Simulations

• Session Thursday morning on this topic
• In class games, online games, simulations.
• Marc Prensky data on learning with games
  (http//wwwmarcprensky.com)

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The Net Generation

• Born in or after 1982
• Gravitate toward group activity
• 8 out of 10 say its cool to be smart
• Focused on grades and performance
• Busy with extracurricular activities
• Identify with parents values feel close to
  parents
• Respectful of social conventions and institutions
• Fascination for new technologies
• Racially and ethnically diverse

Howe Strauss, 2003
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Todays Learners

• Digitally literate
• Mobile
• Always on
• Experiential
• Social

Oblinger, 2004
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Hypertext minds Qualities

• Crave interactivity
• Read visual images
• Visual-spatial skills
• Parallel processing
• Inductive discovery
• Fast response time

Prensky, 2001
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Videos

• Video from June, 2004 executive conference at
  University Central Florida
• Video from our April 28/29 Know Your Student
  Teaching the 21st Century Learner conference

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NetGen learning preferences

• Teams, peer-to-peer
• Structure
• Engagement experience
• Visual kinesthetic
• Things that matter

Oblinger, 2004
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Students vs Faculty

• Students
• Multitasking
• Pictures, sound, video
• Random access
• Interactive and networked

• Faculty
• Single or limited tasks
• Text
• Linear, logical, sequential
• Independent and individual

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Scavenger Hunt

• Login to the MySoutheast portalhttp//portal.sem
  o.edu
• Explore for a moment
• Find a map for building location of course you
  are teaching this fall. Hint, you do not need to
  look for a map, try finding the courses you are
  teaching first.

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Times have Changed

• The Dog Ate my e-Homework

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What can You do?

• Poke through a chat dictionary (online!)
• Try out these technologies
• Set expectations!
• Be flexible
• Dont assume they learn like we did

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Discussion

• What do you already know about 21st century
  learners?
• How are you already teaching them?
• What else might you to address their learning
  needs?