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How to make your learning meaningful for your millennial students.
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Making Learning Meaningful to Millennials
Leigh Zeitz University of Northern Iowa
#ITEC12
tinyurl.com/MeaningfulLearning12
Hashtagging Twitter
#ITEC12
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
Flickr.com/zeitz
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.