1. Teaching for the Future

2. Good teaching practices are good teaching practices regardless of the age group they are aimed at.
There are some techniques that work better for learners of some age based on some fundamental generational differences beyond the learners control . Each generation has distinct attitudes, behaviors, expectations, habits and motivational buttons.

3. Generations overview Generation Birth year Silent Generation
age in 2010
Silent Generation
Baby Boomers
Generation X
Millennial
(Net Generation)
8 - 28

4. The fastest growing group of Internet users are:

5. According to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a research organization in Washington, the ranks of Americans over 65 who use the Internet have jumped by 47 percent since 2000, making them the fastest-growing group to embrace the online world.

6. Silent generation learning
This group is willing to learn new technology.
Prefer the ideas of the others to their own
They look to others for ideas on how to behave and what to think.

7. Boomers learning Enthusiastic learners Internally focused
Need to be reassured if they are going in the right direction.

8. Generation X learning Accept diversity Reject rules
Eager to learn new skills
Good with technology PC
Multitasking
Active and visual learners
Adapt to formal and informal learning

9. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
When did you first:
Read your first book?
Use a computer?
Send an ?
Browse an Internet?
Enter a chat room?
Send a text message?
Participate in a computer meeting?
Create a Face book account?
Use MMORPG
Twitter, podcast?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

10. Twenty years ago the first wave of millennial began to enter college
Twenty years ago the first wave of millennial began to enter college. This Net savvy generation learns different than their predecessors!

11. By the time the millennial has reached 21 years of age he or she will have spent:
10,000 hours playing videos
20,000 hours watching video
10,000 hours on a cell phone
Under 5,000 hours reading (Bonamici 2005)
NET gens are raised in an age of media saturation and extremely easy access to various technologies.

12. The Netgeners have a very unique ways of thinking, communicating and learning.

13. Netgeners learning: Great with technology Use extreme multitasking
Assertive information seekers
Make conscious decision about what learning techniques work for them
Have high expectation from an instructor
Have a desire for active and engaged learning experience
Have short attention span
Need for immediacy

14. Technology, Technology, Technology!
Internet growth 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December Facebook reached 250 million users and is growing There are 37.1 billion searches on Google every month today billion – The number of s sent per day in 2008

15. Students expect: Varied form of communication Interactive environment
Different forms of feedback
Choices of assignments that require pulling different resources
Hands-on and inquiry based learning experience
Learning = fun
Collaboration in the assignments

16. We must be ready to help them learn – we must address their needs?

17. Teaching Net Generation Strategies:
Social orientation
Independent and autonomic learning
Use of media technology

18. Independent and autonomic learning
Experential learning – demonstration, role playing
Interactive learning – shorter lecture time, more discussion

19. Social orientation
Facebook or Twitter
Wikis
Texting

21. What is a wiki?
A wiki is a webpage or collection of webpages that can be edited collaboratively by anyone with access. Wikis are used by groups to quickly edit shared text, including links, images and other data. The most famous wiki is the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

22. Online learning or Web -enhanced learning:
has evolved from a thing-of-the-future to a practical approach to education. There was a time when people would doubt the effectiveness of learning via the World Wide Web. 

23. Today, there are advanced tools that can make web-based education interactive, convenient and productive

24. online learning is much more conducive to the expansion of learning time than is face-to-face instruction.

25. Expository online learning
Synchronous : Live, one way webcast of an online lecture. Limited learner control. Webcast can also be used a supplement to a face to face lecture. Set sequence.
Asynchronous: Course taught through video lectures that students can access on their own time.

26. Webcast

27. Video lecture

28. Until recently, online learning has mainly been of the expository sort, essentially a traditional lecture format adapted for the web. But newer, social and multimedia technologies are allowing online tools to evolve to offer more active and interactive lessons. No longer is online learning just reading a module and answering questions.

29. Active online learning
Synchronous : learning by consulting experts via live chat. Face to Face type course can also culminate in the live chat with experts
Asynchronous: Entire course taught through webcast.
Virtual lab

30. Live chat

31. Webinar- meeting online/web conferencing

32. Web conferencing is a form of real-time communications in which multiple computer users, all connected to the Internet, see the same screen at all times in their Web browsers. Some Web conferencing systems include features such as texting, VoIP (voice over IP) and full-motion video.

34. Jarek

35. Meeting can be attended on the iPad or any computer

36. Site Pal – artificial intelligence
SitePal Artificial Intelligence Management Center (AIMC) is a powerful tool that allows you to "teach" your character to respond to user questions with context-sensitive, spoken answers. The AI enabled character can be used for 24/7 online training, tutoring, and many other purposes

37. Virtual lab

39. Virtual anatomy lab