2. Attracting and Holding The Attention of Those Millennial Digital Natives Jill Robbins & Anup Mahajan National Capital Language Resource Center

3. Who are the millennials? Also known as Generation Y, Echo/New Boomers, MTV Generation Term Millennials coined by Howe & Strauss (2000) Born between (approximately) 1981-2000 Current age: 9 to 28 Have always known computers, Internet,

4. Characteristics of Millenials “..their online life is a whole lot bigger than just the Internet. This online life has become an entire strategy for how to live, survive and thrive in the 21st century, where cyberspace is a part of everyday life.” (Prensky, 2004: 2) For this reason, Millennials in are referred to as Digital Natives

5. Digital Natives in the Classroom Our students are no longer “little versions of us,” as they may have been in the past. In fact, they are so different from us that we can no longer use either our 20th century knowledge or our training as a guide to what is best for them educationally (Prensky, 2007, p. 2). If you lecture to them they tune out (or start texting under the desk)

6. Educational Impact Language-Learning Functions Facilitated Communication Socializing Evaluation Searching Collecting Sharing How Digital Natives Access Resources From Helen Mongan-Rallis

7. The New Teaching Paradigm Teachers need to allow & encourage students to use technology to teach themselves Students need to share the resources they know how to access with teachers & peers

8. Digital Communication Blogs, rss feeds, email, webcasts, wikis, nings, polls, Moodles, Skype, iTunesU, FaceBook, Twitter webcasts Twitter

9. Digital Socializing Global Exchanges (Intercultural Email, class exchanges)Intercultural Email, class exchanges

10. Online Language Practice Skype (Mixxer)Mixxer

11. NCLRC’s Resources Tech for TeachersTech for Teachers: Tutorials, Resources & Articles; Blogs For Students: Webcasts; Teen Interview Podcasts, YouTube Channel WebcastsTeen Interview Podcasts YouTube

12. Evaluation - Self- Assessment Portfolio Assessment: NCLRC’s Portfolio Assessment GuidePortfolio Assessment Guide LinguaFolio: Student portfolioStudent portfolio Teacher training on Linguafolio

13. How do you empower your student’s digital skills?

14. Searching Collecting Sharing Ways Students Access Resources

15. What Digital Innovations Hold Their Attention?

16. Success Stories