This document discusses how teachers need to adapt to the changing skills of "digital native" students. It notes that classrooms still look the same while the world of work has changed, requiring new skills like collaboration, creativity, and social/cultural awareness. It describes digital natives as global thinkers who appreciate freedom of choice and are natural collaborators. The document outlines a social media-assisted teacher education program to help empower teachers to meet the needs of digital native learners through authentic, collaborative learning experiences.

1. Empowering Teachers to Meet
the Digital Native Learners
International E-Learning Conference 2011
Muang Thong Thani, Thailand
13.1.2011
Hanna Teräs – Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Marjatta Myllylä – Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Marko Teräs – Emergent, Canopy & Understory Ltd.

2. What is going on?
Who are digital natives?
What does it have to do
with us?
Image: Wayan Vota

3. The world of work used to look like this.

4. Image: theefer
Now it looks more like this.

5. Image: Shuichiro
Classrooms used to look like this.

6. Image: Valley Library / Oregon State University
And they still do.

7. New types of skills are needed
✦ Collaboration skills
✦ Creative problem solving
✦ Innovation skills
✦ Initiative
✦ Social and cultural skills
✦ Responsibility
Image: theonlyone
Eg. Trilling & Fadel, 2009

8. What are digital natives like?
Global Innovation
thinking & creativity
Tolerance Appreciate
of diversity freedom of
choice
Image: eflon
Natural
collaborators
(Tapscott 2009)

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Companies face recruiting problems -
too many graduates are lacking these skills
(Robinson 2001)

10. Marko’s course:
“Social Media Supporting Success and
Professional Growth”
for BBA students

11. Collaborative
Media literacy
information search
Open ended tasks in
social media environments
Collaborative Personal professional
writing web presence

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14. Teachers learn from their
teachers who have learned
from their teachers who have
learned from their teachers...
The conception of a good
teacher is passed on to one
generation after another.

15. Open social Ongoing
media dialogic
environments evaluation
New
Authentic
enquiry-based
approach to Team learning
learning teacher and facilitating
education
Collaborative Networking
knowledge
construction

16. Teachers vs. digital natives?
Global Innovation
thinking & creativity
Tolerance Appreciate
of diversity freedom of
choice
Image: eflon
Natural
collaborators
(Tapscott 2009)

17. Teachers vs. digital natives?
Global Open-endedness
networks and defining one’s
through goals: innovation
social media and creative
solutions
Team learning Freedom of
and dialogue: choice in working
diversity and methods and
shared expertise Image: RuffLife learning paths
Collaborative knowledge
construction and creation of
content

18. Conclusions
✦ Changed working
environment
✦ Digital native skills:
support not suffocate!
✦ Social media assisted
teacher education program:
empowering teachers to
meet the digital native
learners
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19. Thank you!
Contact us
Hanna Teräs
hanna.teras@tamk.fi
www.hannateras.com
Marko Teräs
marko.teras@emergentcanopy.com
www.markoteras.com