Innovations in Learning
Technology and What it
Means to Nursing
Education
Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., CFPIM, CIRM
Assistant Director
Institute for Interactive Technologies
Bloomsburg University

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Personnel Learning Objective

Send User Data Use the menu
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Have you ever used a Audience
Response System Before
1. No
2. Yes 23%
3. Yes, but not an 43%
electronic version
33%
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What Demographic are you?
1. Generation Y (1981-2000)
43%
2. Generation X (1965-1980)
3. Boomer Generation
(1946-1964) 27%
4. Silent/Veteran Generation
(1922-1945) 17%
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How often do you play video
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2. Played once or a few 27%
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When is the last time you sent a
text message?
1. Never sent one
2. Send one once
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3. A couple times a
week
4. AYSOS…TXTING
now

How do you primarily deliver
training?
1. Lecture
2. Role
Play/Simulation
3. Group
Discussions
4. Problem-Based
Learning
5. Blended

Agenda
• Understanding the technology forces influencing nursing
education.
• Understand the need for new learning tools and linking
them to sound pedagogy/ andragogy.
• Leverage games, gadgets and gizmos for learning.
• Justify the use of games, gadgets and gizmos.
• Create simple online learning events and games with
minimal technological know-how.
• Leveraging participant knowledge.

Digital Digital
Immigrants Natives
Gen-Y
Greatest Generation
Neo-Millennials
Boomers
Generation X
Millennials
Nexters Gamer 3.0
Gamer 4.0 Gamer 2.0
Gamer 1.0

1946-2008

What was the “killer app” during the
boomer’s formative years?
1. Computers 30%
2. Microwaves 27%
23%
3. Jet Airplanes 20%
4. Color Television
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What was the average age of
retirement in 2006?
1. 74 years old
2. 70 years old 27%
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3. 65 years old
4. 62 years old 17%
5. 49 years old 10%
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• 1940-70
• 1970-65
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Boomers
• Individualistic
• Driven
• Loyal
• Idealistic
• Skeptical
• Hierarchical
• Formal Learners

Lazy
Wasting
Time
Anti-
Social Rotting
Brain

Kids ages 8-10 play video
games for about one hour
every day.
87% of 8- to 17-year
old children play video
games at home.
Male teenagers play
13 hours of console
video games a week.
Digital divisions. Report by the Pew /Internet: Pew Internet & American Life.
US Department of Commerce

Almost 43% of the
gamers are female
and 26% of those
females are over
18.
Females play 5 hours a week of
console games. They make up
the majority of PC gamers at
63%.

70 percent of the
players of The Sims
are women under
age 25
Hottest selling kid’s PC game from
May 2004 to July 2006
was Princess Fashion Boutique
Unfortunately, this
game highlights a
sexist stereotype

I am
Studying!
Nathan, stop listening to
music, turn off the
computer, turn off the TV…
and start studying.

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Define the term “Snail Mail”
1. United States
Ground Mail
2. Overnight mail
3. Email
4. Packages
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Instant and Text Messaging
Snail mail: “something you use
to talk to ‘old people,’
institutions, or to send complex
instructions to large groups.”
In other words “Email”
Lenhart, Maddden, Hitlin (2005) Teens and
Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a
Fully Wired and Mobile Nation. Pew Internet and
American Life Project.

Increasing Power of Gadgets
Capability Block II Apollo Guidance PlayStation
Computer Portable
AGC PSP
Memory 36,864 words of ROM
32 MB
Storage 2,048 words of RAM 4 MB DRAM
Clock Speed 2.048 MHz 333 MHz

Name something you send away
for from a cereal box.
1. Decoder Ring
2. T-Shirt
3. Computer
Microphone
4. Cell Phone
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15% of 2-5
Year olds have a
Cell phone
-NPD Group
84%, of all teenagers own at least one personal
media device:
•Desktop/laptop Computer
•Cell Phone
•Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
-Pew Internet Foundation
44% have two

Gamer 1.0
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Gamer 1.0
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How will the ball
Where is my
bounce off the
opponent
wall?
going to go next?
In what direction
should I try to move
the ball?

Gamer 2.0

Gamer 2.0
What is the pattern
Should I shoot the
these aliens are
aliens on the end or in
following?
the middle or all the
bottom aliens first?
How long do I have
to shoot before an
alien shoots at me?

What actions should I
take based on this
information?

Gamer 3.0

What must I do to
Where do I explore achieve my goal?
first?
What activities are
of the most value?

What variables do I
balance to keep my How should I
person happy? manage my time?

Gamer 4.0

Gamer 4.0 What activities give
me the most return
for my efforts?
Can I trust this
person who wants
to team with me to
accomplish a goal?

What can we
create together?

What leadership
strategy should I
use?

What level of Gamer are you?
1. Gamer 1.0
2. Gamer 2.0
3. Gamer 3.0
4. Gamer 4.0
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Solvers Confident
Informal
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Social Multi-
Resilient tasking
Got Game:
John Beck and
Mitchell Wade (2004)

Solutions
1. Think Outside of PowerPoint
2. Borrow from Other Media
3. Provide a Challenge
4. Tell a Story
5. Leverage Gadgets
6. Form Learning Communities
7. Leverage Learner Created
Content
8. Virtual World Learning
9. Technology Mentoring
10.Leverage games
11.Feedback
12.Mix it Up in the classroom

Solution #1:
Think Outside of PowerPoint

Solution #2: Borrow from Other
Media
Think Radio talk-
show, not college
lecture

Use a
documentary
format

Consider using the “En
Media Res” technique

Solution #3: Provide a Challenge

Can this group diagnose the patient?
Do they know what tools to use?
Do they know what questions to ask?

Solution #4: Tell a Story
Bourne Conspiracy
Video Game

Defense Intelligent
Agency Training

America’s Army

PDG’s Sales
Simulation
Training

Strategy #5: Leverage Gadgets
Instructions
1. Following your planogram, assemble the
columns of cubes on the floor by locking
each cube in place
2. After each column is completed place
the top plate on the top of each column
3. Continue until you have all the columns
built

Step Three: Lower Machine
Leverage Gadgets

Are you sending any Text Message information to learners?
Training
Quick small pieces of information that can inspire or motivate or teach
them?
Reminders, Updates, Talking Points, Bulleted Learning Items

How Many Gadgets Do You have
With You Right Now?
1. None
2. One
3. Two
4. Three
5. More than Three
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Strategy #6: Form Learning
Communities

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Creators
Creators
Critics
Collectors
Joiners
Joiners
Spectators
Inactives

Extend Conversations
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Clarification of
Terms
Tips and
Techniques
Posting/Collection of
of Valuable
Resources
Links to
Advice from
syllabus,
Alumni
papers, articles
Listing of
university
links

Which is More Accurate Wikipedia
or Encyclopedia Britannica?
1. Wikipedia
2. Encyclopedia
3. Equal in Accuracy
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3. MySpace
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Strategy#7: Learner Created Content
Create Youtube
Moments.

Real-time
access to people
Answering one question
leads to more questions Sending
Yourself
Reminders.
Reach across silos
of information Quick question
Broadcasting
Thoughts and
Opinions
Mentoring

Have you ever visited a virtual
world?
1. Yes
2. No
3. Please, I live in a
virtual world
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Strategy #8: Virtual World Learning

- Realistic simulators for contemporary
Leadership Training
- Integrate these games into leadership development
programs
- Attempt various leadership structures
-Employees may make hundreds of leadership
decision an hour in a game
Leadership’s Online Labs
Harvard Business
Review, May 2008

Strategy #9: Technology Mentoring

Strategy #10: Leverage Games

Leverage Games
• Learning About New Information
• Memorizing Terms
• Identifying Terms

Strategy # 11: Feedback

Solution #12: Mix it up in the
Classroom

•Provide many feedback opportunities
•Move from activity to activity
•Use games and feedback devices
•Break out sessions

Use Small Group Exercises and
Breakout Groups
Pasha, P. (2005). Corporations
woo baby boomers
CNNMoney,

Let Learner’s Teach

Provide time for
unstructured
chats.

Solutions
1. Think Outside of PowerPoint
2. Borrow from Other Media
3. Provide a Challenge
4. Tell a Story
5. Leverage Gadgets
6. Form Learning Communities
7. Leverage Learner Created
Content
8. Virtual World Learning
9. Technology Mentoring
10.Leverage games
11.Feedback
12.Mix it Up in the classroom

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Top Five-Group
Top Five-Workshop

You thought this presentation and
information was…
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2. Applicable to my
situation
3. Nothing new
4. Boring
5. Can’t be done in my
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Questions and Resources
• www.karlkapp.blogspot.com
– Recommended books
– Samples and Examples
• Whitepaper available
– http://www.e-learningguru.com/wpapers/vendor/Kapp_GGG.pdf
• ASTD Learning Circuits
– Teaching Facts with Fun, Online Games
• Email: karlkapp@gmail.com
• http://karlkapp.blogspot.com
• www.gadgetsgamesandgizmos.com
• “Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools for Transferring
Knowledge from the Boomers to the Gamers”
– Pfeiffer