Empowering teachers to meet the digital native learners

Empowering Teachers to Meet the Digital Native Learners

Hanna Teräs – Tampere University of Applied SciencesMarjatta Myllylä – Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Marko Teräs – Emergent, Canopy & Understory Ltd.

International E-Learning Conference 2011Muang Thong Thani, Thailand

13.1.2011

What is going on?Who are digital natives?What does it have to do

with us?

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The world of work used to look like this.

Now it looks more like this.Image: theefer

Classrooms used to look like this.

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

New types of skills are needed

✦ Collaboration skills

✦ Creative problem solving

✦ Innovation skills

✦ Initiative

✦ Social and cultural skills

✦ Responsibility

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Eg. Trilling & Fadel, 2009

What are digital natives like?

Global thinking

Toleranceof diversity

Naturalcollaborators

Innovation& creativity

Appreciatefreedom of

choice

(Tapscott 2009)

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Companies face recruiting problems - too many graduates are lacking these skills

(Robinson 2001)

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Marko’s course:

“Social Media Supporting Success and Professional Growth”

for BBA students

Open ended tasks in social media environments

Media literacyCollaborative

information search

Collaborative writing

Personal professionalweb presence

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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.

New approach to

teacher education

Authentic enquiry-based

learning

Collaborative knowledge

construction

Ongoing dialogic

evaluation

Team learning and facilitating

Open social media

environments

Networking

Teachers vs. digital natives?

Global thinking

Toleranceof diversity

Naturalcollaborators

Innovation& creativity

Appreciatefreedom of

choice

(Tapscott 2009)

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Teachers vs. digital natives?Global

networks through

social media

Team learning and dialogue:diversity and

shared expertise

Collaborative knowledgeconstruction and creation of

content

Freedom of choice in working

methods and learning paths

Open-endednessand defining one’s goals: innovation

and creative solutions

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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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Thank you!Contact us

Hanna Teräshanna.teras@tamk.fiwww.hannateras.com

Marko Teräsmarko.teras@emergentcanopy.comwww.markoteras.com