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Making Learning Meaningful to Millennials

Leigh Zeitz University of Northern Iowa

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#ITEC12

tinyurl.com/MeaningfulLearning12

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Hashtagging Twitter

#ITEC12

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Collaborative Notes

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Drzreflects.com

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Who Are the Millennials?

Flickr.com/JulieLindsay

Born in 1981 - 2001

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Millennials have . . .

Positive and confident

Can-do Attitude

Flickr.com/rdecom

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Millennials want . . .

Structure

Frequent Feedback

Variety of Tasks

Flickr.com/zeitz

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Millennials . . .

Are Team

Players

Appreciate Diversity

Enjoy

Collaboration

Flickr.com/ToGaWandering

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Millennials . . .

Learn

Work

PlayFlickr.com/ToGaWandering

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Totally Plugged In . . .

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Millennial Mindset

Flickr.com/MediaJon

NOT

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Millennial Mindsets

Doing is more important than knowing

Reality is no longer real

Learning more closely resembles Nintendo than logic

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Millennial Mindsets

Consumer and Creator are blurring

Typing is preferred to handwriting

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Millennial Mindsets

Multi-tasking is a way of

life

Buzzabouttechnolology.com

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8 Hours of Screentime Daily

DigitalMediaNet.com

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What Do They Do?

ReelStatic.com

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Tech Use in 24 hours

PewInternet.com

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Millennials . . .

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

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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

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How Millennial Are You?

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

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How Millennial Are You?

http://tinyurl.com/HowMillRU

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Millennial Mindset

Stay ConnectedFlickr.com/Andrew_Feinberg

Born: 1981

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5 Rs for Engaging Millennials

Research-Based Methods

Relevance

Rationale

Relaxed

Rapport

Dr. Christy Price

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Making It Real!

Integrate . . .

Engage . . .

Create!

Jacobs, Olson, & Lammers, 2012

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All Interactive Textbooks in 5 Years

• U.S. Department of Ed

• Fed. Comm. Commission

• Publishing/Technology Corporations

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

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What Do We Do?

Read Watch

DoListen

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R – W – L – D

Readings

Watchings

Listenings

Doings

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R – W – L – D

Readings

Read

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R – W – L – D

Watchings

Watch

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R – W – L – D

ListeningsListen

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R – W – L – D

Actively engaged with

content

Doings

Do

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Readings, Watchings, Listenings, & Doings

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Readings, Watchings, Listenings, & Doings

Emerging Instructional Technologies

Educational Technology and Design

Seminar: Writing a Graduate Paper

Selection and Integration of Instructional Technologies

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How to Organize RWLDs

Blog It

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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.

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Remember . . .

We must teach our

students

for their tomorrows,

NOT our yesterdays.

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