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

Did You Know 2011 - Social Media Revolution.flv

Microsoft Productivity Future Vision (2011).webm


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

Salman Khan - Let's use video to reinvent education.mp4


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

Look Inside.mp4


Part 3

What can you do as an educator?


Develop learner readiness

Wali on learner readiness:

A learner will only develop a

skill

if they have the

will


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

shaolin soccer hd clip 3.33 audio track 2.lnk


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)

Think and ask.mp4


Education w/out critical thinking


Manage disruptive learners well

How a Social Studies Grade 7 teacher

develops project-orientation!

Pay It Forward clip

pay it forward 5.13 & 30.17.lnk


As a teacher, become likeable!

Every child needs a champion TED clip

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

Rita Pierson - Every kid needs a champion 2013.mp4


And, don’t …

Don’t punish everyone for one person’s

mistake

Clip

Don't punish everyone for one person's mistake.mp4


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!

The Right Way vs the Easy Way Nike.mp4


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

[email protected]

www.skillcity.co

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