learning preferences of gen y / millennial learners - wali zahid - spelt 2013

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Learning Preferences of

Gen Y/Millennial Learners Wali Zahid | ceo, Skill City

29th Annual International SPELT Conference

Karachi: 27 October 2013 | Lahore: 2 November 2013

Who’s Wali?

Asian businesses have known Wali for his 20-year work

on business leadership and executive coaching

Leads the longest-running Train-The-Trainer program |

14th year | 16+ Asian locations | 1,000+ trainers

Taught MBA courses at IBA, ZABIST, CBM, UMT, IIU, Dow

Board/Advisory @ LCWU, Indus Valley, CBM, PSTD

At heart: a disruptor | challenging training efficacy,

schooling, performance appraisal, leadership readiness

World’s first paper-free TTT

That’s us on web!

That’s us on FB! Like us

Advising Nawaz Sharif govt

Was flown in to advise the new Nawaz Sharif

government on turning around state-owned

enterprises before the cabinet took oath!

Leads CEO leadership workshop

2050 interview – Urdu Digest

CEO Summit with Shahbaz Sharif

At Pakistan Vision 2025 meeting

Three parts of the talk

1. How technology is shaping lives?

2. Who are Gen Y/Millennial learners?

3. What can you do as an educator?

Part 1

How technology is shaping lives?

A glimpse into future

Did you know? Social media version clip

Microsoft Future Vision clip

End of teaching? Edudemic

Learning, not teaching! Wharton

End of college degrees: HBR

GPA & interviews useless: Google

KAS: Parent-Teacher Meeting

‘Teachers are the biggest hurdle in student

learning,’ KAS tells parents at Karachi

PTM/2013

Khan: Teacherless classrooms

Khanacademy.org

• Salman Khan’s teacher-less

classroom clip

• Byproduct: Bill Gates behavior

as a learner/ teacher

MOOCs replacing unis

Free education globally

MOOCs rising

Even UK unis following!

Part 2

Gen Y / Millennial learners

Gen Y’ers / Millennials

Some sad news

Gen Y’ers / Millennial kids

Gen Y’ers / Millennial workforce

To them...

Millennials learning preferences

1. Doing is more important than knowing

2. A need for immediacy

3. Trial and error approach to problem solving (PBL)

4. Low boredom threshold

5. Multitasking and parallel processing

6. Visual, nonlinear and virtual learning

7. Collaborative learning

8. Constructivist approach Source: Ashridge UK 2010

In summary, Gen Y’ers/Millennials

Teachers, principals, bosses, parents do not matter much – knowledge is cheap!

Instead, peers influence their decisions!

Extremely low attention spans

Low boredom threshold

Parallel processing: texting/study/talking

How 15-year-old finds cancer test

Look Inside Intel clip

Part 3

What can you do as an educator?

Develop learner readiness

Wali on learner readiness:

A learner will only develop a

if they have the

What is will?

Will = desire, hunger, drive, ambition,

willingness, your reason for being, mindset

What is skill?

Skill = ability, competence, capability,

something you are known for, niche, skillset

How a coach develops will & skill

Shaolin Soccer clip

Wali’s Will-Skill Matrix v1

Use 14 ways to acquire knowledge

Use learning combination lock

Use all 8 multiple intelligences

Use active learning methods

Be mindful of what we retain…

Encourage critical thinking

Think and Ask clip

Because… (next slide)

Education w/out critical thinking

Manage disruptive learners well

How a Social Studies Grade 7 teacher

develops project-orientation!

Pay It Forward clip

As a teacher, become likeable!

Every child needs a champion TED clip

Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like!

And, don’t …

Don’t punish everyone for one person’s

mistake

The right thing vs the easy thing!

Rise and shine clip

Go for the right grind!

This clip will guide you how to create global

success and create Olympians!

What’s your pledge to yourself?

Note on your cellphones,

writing pads!

We will review the effect

at next year’s Spelt!

Thank you!

Wali Zahid

skillcity@live.com

www.skillcity.co

+92 300 820 1 88 9

+971 50 2 55 3 88 7

+973 3416 0522

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