education in digital age

Education in Digital Age 1

Education in Digital Age

Kitt Tientanopajai, D.Eng.Assistant to the President for IT AffairsDirector, Institute of Learning and Teaching InnovationKhon Kaen University


Part I Learning Skills


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Critical thinkingTechnology

Information

Communication

Global Awareness

MediaCreativity

Digital Immigrants

CollaborationDigital Natives

Self-direct

ICT Literacy

21st Century Skills


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● Sense-Making: deeper meaning, significance of what being expressed.

● Social Intelligence: connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions.

● Novel & Adaptive Thinking: proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based.

● Cross-Cultural Competency: ability to operate in different cultural settings

● Computational Thinking: translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning.


● New-Media Literacy: critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication

● Transdisciplinary: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines

● Design Mindset: represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes

● Cognitive Load Management: discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques

● Virtual Collaboration: work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team.


Part II Digital Natives


Have you ?● Print an e-mail to read.● Print a document to edit on paper.● Phone your friend to read your mail.● Read the manual before use a program. ● Use “dial” number.● Instantly know what icon means.

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According to Marc Prensky, you are a ...

digital immigrant.

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Generation CTechnological Generation

Digital Childhood

homo-zapiensBorn digital

Digital Natives

Gen Z

Neo-millennial GenerationGeneration Next


Digital native: A person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.

Reference: Oxford Dictionary


“My phone is my third hand.”

“If I lose my cell phone I lose half my brain.”

-- High school studentsReference: Marc Prensky


Digital Nativesaged 15-24, 5+ years experience using the Internet. in 180 countries

363M digital natives

30% of total youths

5.2% of total population


Digital Nativesas a percentage of total population 2012


4,387,062 digital natives (#19)

42.3% of total youths (#74)

6.3% of total population (#85)

Thai Digital Natives


Are they really different ?


“Over 10,000 hours playing video games, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones; over 20,000 hours watching TV […], over 500,000 commercials seen – all before they turn 21. And, maybe, at the very most, 5,000 hours of book reading”

-- Marc Prenskyin “Has Growing Up Digital and Extensive Video Game Playing

Affected Younger Military Personnel’s Skill Sets?”


“When our own kids will turn fifteen in 2016 or so, they are likely to spend somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 hours per year on digital technologies. Five years later, at age twenty, they will have accumulated at least 10,000 hours as active users of the Internet, if the current user statistics still apply.”

- - Professor Urs Gasserin “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives”

Copyright © 2008 by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser


Neuroplasticity

Experiences can change both the brain's physical structure (anatomy) and functional organization (physiology).

Hagmann P, et. al. Mapping the structural core of human cerebral cortex. PLoS Biology Vol. 6, No. 7, e159License: CC BY 3.0


They prefer to process ...

Visual


10% with verbal (text/oral)

65% with visual

After 72 hoursthe average human beings can retain ..


Days later 90% recalled

A year later 63% recalled

2500+ ImagesExpose 10 seconds each ...


Text Layout Pattern

* If text is organized into paragraphs

Image source: http://media.nngroup.com/media/editor/alertbox/f_reading_pattern_eyetracking.jpgCopyright © 1998-2014 Nielsen Norman Group


They prefer to quickly receive ...

FeedbacksReinforcementsRewards


Basically, digital gives what they want almost

immediately

Search engine: information, mediaSocial networks: comments, likes Games: interactions, scores, rewards, levels


They prefer parallel processing and ...

MultitaskingTechnically, Continuous Partial Attention

“The human frontal function seems limited to driving the pursuit of two concurrent goals simultaneously.”

- - Sylvain Charron, and Etienne Koechlinin “Divided Representation of Concurrent Goals in the Human Frontal Lobes”

Science Vol. 328 no. 5976 pp. 360-363


They prefer to learn

Just-In-Time

Many teachers prefer to teach them

… just-in-case


“I’ll get the information when I need it”

Students are more interested in a general conceptual awareness of the world, not just a factual awareness of the world.

-- Ian Jukes & Anita Dosajin “Understanding Digital Children (DKs)”

Copyright © 2006 The InfoSavvy Group


They prefer …

Interactive / Network Approach

Communication, Social, Environment


They prefer learning that is …

relevant, instantly useful .. and fun

Motivations, Guidances, Directions


“These young men and women are the future. If you want to succeed you need to know what they care about – such as reducing the gender gap, improving the quality of education and increasing access to technology – and work with them to make concrete positive changes.”

-- Neelie KreosVice-President of the European Commission

In Telefónica press release, 4 June 2013


Part III Education in Digital Age


Let’s ..

Flip your classroom


Cheerleader

Commander

Cognitive Psychologist

Challenger

Curator

CreativeConductorComputer Literate

CollaboratorCultivator

Consultant Concierge

21st Century Teachers

Content Deliver


MOOCs


● Educational resources● Classroom records● Podcasts● Live broadcast● ...

Video

ormschool


● Reflections● Journaling● e-Portfolio● Microblogging● Learning from others● RSS● ...

Blogs


● A clicker replacement

Polls, Surveys, Feedbacks


● Announcements● Material sharing● Discussions● Synchronous

● Phone call● Conference call● Instant messaging

● Asynchronous● Instant messaging● Mail● SMS

Communication Tools


Interactive Tools


Collaboration Tools

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● A set of cloud services offered by Google for educational institute for free.● Web-based email, calendar & documents for

collaborative study anytime, anywhere.

● Hosted at Google Data Center, managed by the institute.● Very secure, 99.9% availability SLA● Your data belongs to you● TCO can be very low

● KKU saved 15 mil. baht. of investment.

What is the Google Apps for Education ?


Q & A

Kitt Tientanopajai, D.Eng.([email protected])

Assistant to the President for IT AffairsDirector, Institute of Learning and Teaching InnovationKhon Kaen University

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