itec making learning meaningful for your millennial students

Making Learning Meaningful to Millennials

Leigh Zeitz University of Northern Iowa

#ITEC12

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Collaborative Notes

Drzreflects.com

Who Are the Millennials?

Flickr.com/JulieLindsay

Born in 1981 - 2001

Millennials have . . .

Positive and confident

Can-do Attitude

Flickr.com/rdecom

Millennials want . . .

Structure

Frequent Feedback

Variety of Tasks

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Millennials . . .

Are Team

Players

Appreciate Diversity

Enjoy

Collaboration

Flickr.com/ToGaWandering

Millennials . . .

Learn

Work

PlayFlickr.com/ToGaWandering

Totally Plugged In . . .

Millennial Mindset

Flickr.com/MediaJon

NOT

Millennial Mindsets

Doing is more important than knowing

Reality is no longer real

Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than logic

Millennial Mindsets

Consumer and Creator are blurring

Typing is preferred to handwriting

Millennial Mindsets

Multi-tasking is a way of

life

Buzzabouttechnolology.com

8 Hours of Screentime Daily

DigitalMediaNet.com

What Do They Do?

ReelStatic.com

Tech Use in 24 hours

PewInternet.com

Millennials . . .

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

How Millennial Are You?

TV watching Reading newspapers Playing video games Cell phone Text messages High-paying job Appreciating

diversity

Politics Social

networking Religion Parents married Tattoo Piercing

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

How Millennial Are You?

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

How Millennial Are You?

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

Millennial Mindset

Stay ConnectedFlickr.com/Andrew_Feinberg

Born: 1981

5 Rs for Engaging Millennials

Research-Based Methods

Relevance

Rationale

Relaxed

Rapport

Dr. Christy Price

Making It Real!

Integrate . . .

Engage . . .

Create!

Jacobs, Olson, & Lammers, 2012

All Interactive Textbooks in 5 Years

• U.S. Department of Ed

• Fed. Comm. Commission

• Publishing/Technology Corporations

LEAD Commission: Charting Our Transition to “Interactive Digital Textbooks”

What Do We Do?

Read Watch

DoListen

R – W – L – D

Readings

Watchings

Listenings

Doings

R – W – L – D

Readings

Read

R – W – L – D

Watchings

Watch

R – W – L – D

ListeningsListen

R – W – L – D

Actively engaged with

content

Doings

Do

Readings, Watchings, Listenings, & Doings

Readings, Watchings, Listenings, & Doings

Emerging Instructional Technologies

Educational Technology and Design

Seminar: Writing a Graduate Paper

Selection and Integration of Instructional Technologies

How to Organize RWLDs

Blog It

iBooks & iBooks Author

RWLD Book?

What would be your challenges?

How can you be supported?

What do you hope for an outcome?

Will this improve learning?

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Remember . . .

We must teach our

students

for their tomorrows,

NOT our yesterdays.

Remember . . .

We must teach our

students

for their tomorrows,

NOT our yesterdays.