cengage learning digital road shows 2013, mark frydenberg, student voices in a world
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Student Voices in a World of Social and Digital Learning
Mark FrydenbergBentley University
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• Who are Students Today?
• Social Learning• Digital Learning
• Who are Students Today?
• Social Learning• Digital Learning
“they rely on the most basic search tools and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web.”
Today’s digital literaciesof attention, participation, collaboration, crap detection, and network smarts can make the difference between being empowered or manipulated, serene or frenetic.
“as people optimize their ability to multitask online, they become less creative in their thinking.”
the Web is a technology forforgetfulness where being constantly connected and multitasking adds clutter, not clarity to our minds
You know, I came home and turned on the TV. This new generation comes home and they turn on their computer, and they're in three different windows, they've got three magazines open, ...
Rethinking How We TeachThe 'Net Generation'
they're listening to iTunes, texting with their friends and talking to them. They may have a video game going - oh yeah, and they're doing their homework.
Rethinking How We TeachThe 'Net Generation'
DIGITAL LITERACY
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT
Tell me what I may already
know and show me how much
more there is to learn!
Critical Thinking
Small Units
Blue text leads to
more info online
Screens add context
Mini features on current
topics
• Who are Students Today?
• Social Learning• Digital Learning
Minds on Fire / JS Brown
The most profound impact of the Internet is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning.
Engage Me or Enrage Me
it’s not relevance that’s lacking for this generation, it’s engagement
May 2011
The natives are revolting
the natives are revolting
children may have skills in the use of technology, but teachers have the skills and knowledge to create engaging and exciting learning opportunities and environments
June 2012
What happens in your classroom?
Engaged?
Engaged?
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ImplementationWatch Video at Home
5 Question Quick Quiz
Small Group Exercise
Reader, Doer , Checker
Sharing and Reflection
Students 66 students (40 male,
26 female)
3 academically diverse sections of IT 101 (22 Honors, 17 Accelerated, 27 Evening)
Have the same Instructor (Me!)
Flip Your Classroom
Videos
Quick Quiz (5 min)
Work together in small groups to complete this assignment.
Take turns being the reader, doer, and checker.
The reader reads an instruction aloud while the doer
completes it in Excel.
The checker helps the doer if the doer needs help and
confirm that each step is completed correctly.
Help each other out, look up how to do things in the book if
you’re not sure, and if you’re still stuck, ask me!
Activity (45 min)
Visit http://data.worldbank.org/. Navigate to Data, then Indicators and explore the data sets that are available.
Select a data set of interest that has at least 5 years’ worth of values.
Download the data. Import it into Excel.
Create a worksheet named Group Members. Include the names of the members of your group.
Examine your data. If there are many f empty columns, hide or delete them. Keep at least 10 years’ worth of data.
Create spark lines for the data. Add spark line markers.
Filter the data to display only those countries that begin with the letter A.
Create a new sheet named “A countries.”
Copy row 1 (the header row), and the all of the rows for all of the countries that begin with A to a new sheet.
Create a line chart showing all of the data on one graph, where each line is a different country.
Label the horizontal and vertical axes .The legend should go at the bottom
The legend labels should be the country abbreviations. Horizontal axis should show the years
Your graph should have a title. Place the chart on its own worksheet
Change the filter to display another subset of the data that you choose.
Copy the header row and all of the data to a new sheet.
Create a bar chart for the last 4 years of available data. Add appropriate labels, legends, titles, and formatting styles to your chart. Place
the chart on its own worksheet.
Place the file in a Dropbox folder shared with the members of your group so that each group member will have access to this file on their own computers.
Each group member should submit the (same) file to Blackboard to get credit for completing this assignment.
Student Comments
• Who are Students Today?
• Social Learning• Digital Learning
BYOD
LWYOD
Cell phones in school
Exercisesto Flip!
Try These!
Beyond the Book
Go Beyond the
Book!
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You Review It!
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Students Use: Collaboration
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