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The “Net Generation:” Implications for Libraries and
Higher Education
University of Oregon
Library Faculty Meeting
February 1, 2007
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OUTLINE• Profile of the “Net Generation”• The next cohort: What can we expect in 4-5
years?• Reshaping library services for today’s
students• Implications for redesign of learning spaces• Questions & Discussion
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What is the Net generation, and what are their learning preferences?
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Educating the Net Generation
Diana Oblinger
Vice President of EDUCAUSE
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• Born in or after 1982• Gravitate toward group activity• 8 out of 10 say “it’s cool to be smart”• Focused on grades and performance• Busy with extracurricular activities• Fascination with new technologies• Racially and ethnically diverse
Net Generation
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• By 21, average Net-Gen-er– 10,000 hours video games– 200,000 emails– 20,000 hours TV– 10,000 hours cell phone– Under 5,000 hours reading
• That is 1/10 the time reading as other media
Saturated with Media
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• Teams, peer-to-peer• Engagement & experience• Visual & kinesthetic• Demand for immediacy
Net Gen learning styles
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Student in-class preferences
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Student Preferences for levels of instructional technology
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• Make learning interactive and experiential • Consider peer-to-peer approaches• Utilize real-world applications• Emphasize information literacy in courses• Mix online and face-to-face• Encourage reflection• Create opportunities for synthesis • Use informal learning opportunities
What should Faculty Do
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“Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”
- Marc Prensky, 2001
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What can we expect in the next cohort of
students?
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Next Generation• Kids approx. 15 years old today• Continuation of the net generation only
with increasing intensity.• Multi-taskers• Hands on, experiential• Prefer media rich content• Gadget and Technology rich• Savvy Consumers• Expect quick results• Think technology is essential to education
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Multitasking• Always doing many things
• Short attention spans
• Developed “hypertext minds”
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Hands On, Experiential
• Learn better by discovery• Doing things much more interesting than
listening about things• Like working in groups and expect group
work in courses• Like interactive exchange• Never read instructions
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Prefer Media Rich Content
• Media saturation results in intuitive visual preference
• High levels of competency in visual / spatial (for example, gaming)
• Focus on visual and media comes at some expense in text literacy
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Gadgets and Technology
• Technology is always there and they expect it work
• Ubiquitous access to multiple technologies does NOT translate to being an expert user
• Challenging for IT support organizations – kids have no interest in understanding how things work, they just want them to work
• Can we leverage these gadgets?
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Savvy Consumers
• Expect to be able to choose what kind of education they buy as well as what, where and how they learn
• Want choices in most things
• Want to be able to customize everything.
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Impatient
• Want what they want right now
• Part of the whole issue of multitasking
• High demands on service and support organizations
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Technology is Essential• It is such an important part of our world and
embedded in our society, must know how to use it.
• It is helpful and makes things faster• Helps poor students• Makes learning about anything anytime
easier• To connect with friends
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Some Debate• Naomi Baron, linguistics professor at American
University thinks parents and educators have created this monster by pandering to them
“at some point, what we are doing is killing higher education”
• Michael Gorman, Dean of Library services at CSU Fresno and former President of ALA
“this sort of end-of-history approach is dubious to me, this idea that we have reached a watershed and we have to throw everything aside and come in with new approaches”
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More Debate• Robert Johnson, VP for Information Services at
Rhodes College“As huge university libraries push aside their books, they are sending a terrible message to their students”.
• Dale Smith, Director of Network Services at the University of Oregon
“Don’t we have some responsibility to produce literate graduates?”
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How Does Generational Change Shape Library and Information
Services?
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Roles of Librarians & Information Professionals
• Observing Changes: Libraries and information services have a front-row seat for seeing students’ learning behaviors
• Faculty Response: “We mold how they learn”• The Problem for Us: How do we balance
expectations of faculty and students?
Richard Sweeney,University LibrarianNew Jersey Institute of Technology
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Providing Information Resources
Observations• Students are awash
in information• The library’s
information is harder to get to than the results of a Google search
Solution?• Work with faculty and
through the curriculum to convey to students that there are different kinds of information, some more valuable than others
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Organizing Information Resources
Observations• Obstacles to getting
information seem inexplicable to students
• Anything less than full-scale digitization is less than impressive
Solutions?• Use technology to
break down obstacles whenever possible
• Indoctrinate students to the romance of dusty volumes
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Teaching about Information Resources
Observations• Role of librarians unclear
to students• Librarians may not be
where the students are, when the students are
• Students may prefer figuring things out themselves, or with peers
Solutions?• Participate in the
curriculum and campus life
• Find ways to be where the students are
• Explore peer-to-peer instructional service models
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Enabling Students and Faculty to Use Information Resources
Observations• Students will use
technology for its own sake; not so faculty
• Copying, reusing, and sharing information is easy -- especially if it’s digital. But is it legal?
Solutions?• Technology must
enhance the learning experience
• Students and faculty must have a “safe space” for using information
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How Would We Like for NetGens to Think of the Library?
• As a source of valuable and readily available information
• As a place equipped for learning and study -- both physical and virtual
• As a haven for a community of learners
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How should we redesign learning spaces?
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What are Learning Spaces?
• No longer a traditional classroom or strictly defined environment
• Can be anywhere that people learn – physical or virtual, classroom or chat room, on-campus or off-campus
• Linked to research on “Information Grounds” -- social settings in which people share everyday information while attending to a focal activity. (Karen Fisher, UW iSchool)
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Informal Spaces
• Students spend more time out of class than in it
• Learning occurs through conversations, web surfing, social interactions
• Mingle, share, make connections
• Spontaneous interactions
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NetGens
• Used to dealing with simultaneous inputs while working
• Different values when it comes to learning
• “Let’s build it” approach• Collaborative, social creatures• Almost symbiotic relationship with IT
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Technology: The Enabler
• Technology is a tool
• Ubiquitous access to technology
• Laptops, tablets, cell phones, iPods, digital cameras, PDAs, etc.- Devices continue to get smaller,
functionality becomes integrated
• Connected any time, any place
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Learning Theory and Styles• Shift from memorization to
understanding
• Constructivist theory:– Contextual– Active– Social
• Problem-based
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NetGen Learning Preferences• Teams
• Peer-to-peer
• Engagement and experience
• Visual and kinesthetic
• Service learning
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Learning Activities
• Collaborative• Cooperative• Supportive• Active• Multiple learning paths• Multiple learning resources
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Software and Tools• IM, chat• Real-time polling devices• Screen sharing software• Online quizzes and tutorials• Media files• Discussion boards• E-portfolios• Web-based file sharing• Productivity, analysis, and presentation
software
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Facilities and Equipment• Café and wireless are almost a given• Comfortable, inviting environment• Natural lighting• Flexible seating• Tables with space for all the “stuff”• Accessible, adaptable, integrated facilities
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Facilities and Equipment, cont.
• Flexible IT infrastructure and complete IT integration
• Shared screens: smartboards, projectors, LCD panels
• Printing• Digital media workstations• Multiple platforms, devices
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Prediction is very difficult,
especially of the future.-Niels Bohr
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Ideas for Questions & Discussion
• Where can we find opportunities for collaboration -- between libraries; between libraries & other academic support partners?
• How do we make sure we support faculty who want to transition their teaching and curriculum?
•Does having an educated populace benefit society or is a college education a private good for the individual?
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Questions & Discussion, continued
•We as service and support organizations have built arcane mechanisms that force the student and faculty to understand history and organizational structure to find help. What can we do about that?
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Ideas for Questions & Discussion, continued
• The Net and Next Generation kids are used to customization, from cell phone covers, to the look and feel of the PC desktop, to web sites. What should we do to provide a customizable college experience?