Reaching net-generation learners with social technologies Maarten Cannaerts – DE NAYER

“ I find it very difficult to concentrate myself on boring courses.”

“ I find it very difficult to concentrate myself on boring courses.”

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

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.

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]

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.slideshare.net/maartencannaerts

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

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

Reaching net-generation learners with social technologies Maarten Cannaerts – DE NAYER

“ Net generation” learners Who are they? Are they really different? What can we do?

Who are they?

Are they really different?

What can we do?

Who uses mail daily?

Who uses mail daily?

“ E-mail is for old people .”

“ E-mail is for old people .”

FRAND, “The information age mindset” (2000)

A quiz with 7 questions… (disclaimer: sorry, no prize for the winner)

A quiz with 7 questions…

(disclaimer: sorry, no prize for the winner)

................................................... are not technology Computers

................................................... replaces television Internet

................................................... is better than writing Typing

................................................... is a way of life Multitasking

.............................. is more important than knowing Doing

......................................................................................... is essential, everywhere and always Connectivity and communication

.............................. is preferred to conventional logic Nintendo Trial and error

TIRO –> teens and ICT, risks and opportunities

… 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)

… 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…

“ Infomania worse than marijuana”

“ Infomania worse than marijuana”

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

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)

Attention spa m :

A condition resulting in a failure to process basic facts , due largely to having a mind full of useless information .

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. M. Prensky

Education is what remains after what has been learned has been forgotten (B.F. Skinner)

1975 2006 26/12/2007

“ Life in the fast lane”

Modern Times

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/DOWNTOWN.jpg 700m, Dubai

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

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)

eBay for software development?

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . (former Secretary of Education Richard Riley)

Viral marketing specialist Embedded lover Valorisation coordinator Technology marketing analyst Digital media consultant E-marketeer Search-engine optimiser Ambient technology expert

Viral marketing specialist

Embedded lover

Valorisation coordinator

Technology marketing analyst

Digital media consultant

E-marketeer

Search-engine optimiser

Ambient technology expert

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. Marshall McLuhan

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/13/1939-marital-rating.html

Is “the net generation” different, or are they just adapting (better) to a different and changing world?

It’s not my problem!

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?

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?

Creepy Treehouse Effect

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/

A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.

What can we do?

Stories, multimedia (video/ audio…) Trigger more senses http://www.brainrules.net/attention

Stories, multimedia (video/ audio…)

Trigger more senses

http://www.brainrules.net/attention

Make the learners more autonomous I want to choose my tools and methods I skype, you skype, we all skype

Make the learners more autonomous

I want to choose my tools and methods

I skype, you skype, we all skype

Open up the learning Weblogs, anyone?

Open up the learning

Weblogs, anyone?

(been there, done that)

(been there, done that)

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…

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…

www.zazzle.com

What can we do?

What did we do?

What’s a wiki to you? Wiki is my middle name! Wiki – hmm… heard of it Wiki? Pedia?

What’s a wiki to you?

Wiki is my middle name!

Wiki – hmm… heard of it

Wiki? Pedia?

Information literacies

Information literacies

What’s Lonelygirl’s secret?

What’s Lonelygirl’s secret?

80% claims having good search-skills, but barely 50% does quality control on the search results (Mediappro)

“ High horsepower, poor steering” (OECD – Understanding the brain)

http://www.webdrain.com/2005/10/google-fun-google-2084.html

‘ Work’ shop

“ Net generation” learners Who are they? Are they really different? What can we do?

Who are they?

Are they really different?

What can we do?

The Personal Learning Environment?