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I was the Pre-conference speaker for NACADA Region 6 2010 conference in Lincoln, NE.
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Advising Upgrade: Advising Upgrade: Installing Technology into Everyday Installing Technology into Everyday
AdvisingAdvisingJosh Nichols, Dickinson State University
Overview
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Evaluating the limitations of
traditional advising approaches. Cheap/Free Technologies Planning: What technologies could I
try at my institution. Wrap-up Discussion Questions Collect Evaluations
The Generations
Generation Born
Builders/Matures Before 1946
Boomers 1946-1964
Generation X 1965-1979
Generation Y 1980-1994
Generation Z 1995-2009
Generation AA? 2010-???
The Language of the Net Gen
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)
Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language.
“Today’s Students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.”
“Digital Immigrants typically have very little appreciation for these new skills that the Natives have acquired and perfected through years of interaction and practice.”
Digital Immigrants
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)
“Digital Immigrants learn – like all immigrants, some better than others – to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past.”
Accents
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)
Printing your email. Making hard copies to be edited. Showing someone a website rather
then forwarding it to them. Reading the manual for a program
rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it.
The “Did you get my email?” phone call.
Academically Driven Creators and
Explorers Technologically
Adept Service-Minded Social Creatures Multi-taskers Mobile UsersFather Google and Mother IM (Carie Windham 2207)
Neomillennial Learning Preferences
Us Versus Them
Who They Are Vs. Who We See
Their Cons Vs. Our Cons
What They Want Vs. What We’re Willing to Do
Activity #1
Discuss with each other the problems and/or limitations you are facing using traditional methods of communication.
Discuss some of the difficulties you currently face when utilizing technology to connect with students and/or maximize time.
Share your thoughts with the group.
Technology Concerns
What if my students aren’t computer literate?
What if my students don’t have a computer or the Internet?
How do you expect me to do my current job AND learn a new technology?
Our university can’t afford these new technologies (or it’s not a priority).
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Activity #2
Discuss with each other what new technologies you plan to utilize and/or what might you change about the way you currently use technology.
Brainstorm which technologies could enhance what you are already doing to communicate with and assist students.
Share your thoughts with the group.
Imperfect and Unstoppable
Technology is great . . . when it works. It’s efficient . . . but time consuming. The Internet is informative . . . if you
can sift through the garbage. There are hundreds of options . . . but
no one solution. It’s unstoppable . . . whether we like it
or not.
Questions?
Related Materials
Oblinger, Diana G. and James L. Oblinger, editors. Educating the Net Generation. Educause, June 2005.
Prensky, M. (2001a, September/October). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6. Retrieved April 30, 2003, from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
Pletka, Bob. Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2007.
Contact Info
Josh NicholsEducational Enhancement
Services291 Campus Drive
Dickinson, ND 58601
joshua.nichols@dsu.nodak.edu
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