How to be collaborative, adaptive and tech-savvy communicators who can operate in the 21 st century classroom.

Baby Boomers TV generation Typewriters Memos Gen X Video games Computers Net Gen The Web Mobile devices Instant messenger Online communities

Stats on Net Gen: 100% use it to search for information on colleges, careers & jobs 74% use instant messaging as a major communication vehicle 54% of students (7-12 grade) know more IM screen names than home phone numbers 81% friends & relatives 70% instant message 56% prefer the Internet over the telephone Howe & Strauss, 2003

Digital natives living in a digitally focused world: Digitally literate Mobile Experiential Comfortable using technology Familiar with Collaborating Self-Teaching

Learning new skills Learning new technology Use technology effectively Don’t overuse the technology Provide a collaborative learning environment

Desk top computers Thin clients Notebook Computers Netbooks Tablet PCs E-Readers

Collaboration Two-way and small-group Online meeting Productivity Social networking

Audio conferencing systems. Video conferencing systems. Web conferencing systems.

Real time access to information for absent, sick or traveling students Access to internationally based resource personnelSupports teacher collaborationEssential skills for today’s workforceIncreased productivity time

Abundance of resources and relationships are easily accessible via the Internet. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models. There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning.

People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud- based and expectations of IT decentralized support. The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving changes in the structure of student projects.

Economic pressures and new models of education competing with the traditional models of education. Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance. Institutional barriers present major challenges to moving forward with emerging technologies.

The prevailing methods of instruction impede the most effective application of technology Don’t know how to make new technologies transform teaching Instructional workload Often too much emphasis on the technology itself and lack of support for teachers

Lack of clear direction, sustained commitment, and financial incentives needed Merely providing tools is unlikely to provide a significant increase in effective use of technology in instruction

Adaptive Collaborative Risk taker Tech-Savvy Understand where technology fits Know how to find useful (free) resources