1. The document discusses reaching "net-generation" learners through the use of social technologies. 2. It notes that today's students are different than those the education system was designed for, and argues we must adapt to a changing world by making learning more autonomous, interactive, and skills-focused. 3. The document suggests using tools like social networking, multimedia, and open learning approaches to better engage students and show the relevance of their education.

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]

6. www.slideshare.net/maartencannaerts

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)

33. 1975 2006 26/12/2007

35. “ Life in the fast lane”

38. Modern Times

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

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

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

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?

74. Information literacies

75. What’s Lonelygirl’s secret?

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)

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

85. ‘ Work’ shop

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

93. The Personal Learning Environment?