a glimpse at the students of today prepared by dena faust for usdla conference 2008
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A Glimpse at the Students of Today
Prepared by Dena Faust for USDLA conference 2008
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“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
_Marc Prensky, 2001
Marc Prensky, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
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So, who are these students?
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They are the Millennials
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They are the Net Generation
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They are the Digital Natives
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Why do we call them digital natives?
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By the time students enter college today, they will have spent …
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Over 10,000 hours playing video games
Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants
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Over 10,000 hours using a cell phone
Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants
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20,000 hours watching TV
Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants
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and will have sent over 200,000 emails and IMs by the time they graduate
college
Prensky, M (2001). Digital natives digital immigrants
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They have never had to …
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Dial a phone
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Play a Record
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Or get up to change the TV channel
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Sadly Kermit is old enough to have been their father.
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These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create,
consume, remix, and share material
Lee Rain, Director Pew Internet and American Life Project
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For the common Net Gener:
Computers aren’t technologyThe Internet is better than TVReality is no longer realDoing is more important than knowingMultitasking is a way of lifeStaying connected is essentialThere is no tolerance for delaysConsumer and creator are blurred
Jason Frand, The Information Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education,” EDUCAUSE Review 35, no.5 (September/October 2000): 15-24
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Staying connected is essential
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Are you helping them stay connected?
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Is your learning environment providing a place for this type of interactivity?
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These are the technologies they use everyday.
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Why not use the tools that they are already using to engage and teach them?
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The fact is that even if you are the most engaging old-style teacher in the world,you are not going to capture most of our students’ attention the old way. “
- Prensky 2005
Prensky, Marc 2005 Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand
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“Engage me or enrage me.”
Prensky, Marc 2005 Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand
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Your students may be sending SUBTLE messages all around the classroom
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Our digital immigrant instructors, who speak a language of the pre-digital age, are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language.
__Prensky, 2001
Marc Prensky, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
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References• Oblinger, Diana (2003). Boomers Gen-Xers & Millennials: Understanding the new students. EDUCAUSE
Review, July/August 2003, 37-47.
• Neil Howe and William Strauss, Millennials rising (New York: Vintage Books, 2000).
• Prensky, Marc“ Digital natives, digital immigrants, Part II: Do they really think differently? "On the Horizon,
vol. 9, no. 6 (December 2001), pp. 15–24; available from http://marcprensky.com/writing.
• Jones, Steve "The internet goes to college: How students are living in the future with today's technology"
(Washington, D.C.: Pew Internet & American Life Project, September 15, 2002),
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• Oblinger, Diana and Oblinger, James L, Educating the net generation (Educause, 2005).
• Prensky, Marc (2005). Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand [Electronic version].
EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2005, 61-63.
• “Where We Begin” provided by Kathy Reynolds under the Creative Commons license. More of this artist’s
music can be found at http://www.podsafeaudio.com/.