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Promising Practices for Engaging Learners Dr. L. Kay Abernathy Dr. Cynthia D. Cummings Dr. Sheryl R. Abshire Dr. Diane Mason Lamar University College of Education Educational Leadership Beaumont, TX
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Promising Practicesfor Engaging Learners
Dr. L. Kay Abernathy
Dr. Cynthia D. Cummings
Dr. Sheryl R. Abshire
Dr. Diane Mason
Lamar UniversityCollege of Education
Educational LeadershipBeaumont, TX
How Do We Engage PK-20 Learners? Who are they?
Uniqueness for Faculty: First generation of digital
learners.
Use digital media, games, and communication tools.
Diverse backgrounds, experiences, and learning needs.
Digital Savvy Students:
Tapscott (1998, 2008) = Net Generation &
Generation Next or Generation Z
Prensky (2001a, 2001b, 2009) = Digital Natives
Oblinger & Oblinger (2005) = Millenials
Helsper (2008 & Enyon (2009) =
Second Generation Using Online Gaming, Social Media, and Web
2.0 Tools
Guiding Question:
What do I need to keep in mind when planning for engaging tools and resources to enhance the learning environment for Digital Natives and Second Generation Digital Natives?
Interactive Learning Environment
CollaborationProject-based learningPartneringAuthentic AssessmentAudienceDigital Medium
Teaching Considerations for the Digital Student:
Daniel Pink’s Drive tells us that autonomy, mastery, and purpose are most important for motivation.
Develop Partnerships for learning.Wired for higher level thinking, exploration,
collaboration, and interaction. Use of project-based, problem-based, case-based
studies with inquiry. Desire for fast-paced, interactive learning
activities including constructivism co-constructing principles and learning by doing. Flipped classrooms
Collaboration
Discussion focused on week’s assignment to ensure sharing of Google Docs with each other. Upcoming Web 2.0 tools assignment was also discussed.
Document created by the Fantastic Five (graduate students) as part of Week 3 assignments for EDLD 5362.Team Google Document
Example: Collaborative Team Google Document
Desire for fast-paced, interactive learning activities including constructivism co-constructing principles and learning by doing. http://www.flippedlearning.org/
Flipped Classrooms
Partnering
Students Wired for What They Love
Wired for higher level thinking, exploration, collaboration, and interaction.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
Personal Learning Networkhttp://edupln.com
Allow your students to find what they love. Love what they do. They are the new; we are the old! Live their inner voice. Follow their hearts. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
(Steve Jobs 2005)
Project-Based Learning
Use of Project and Problem-Based, Case Based Studies, and Inquiry.
An Introduction to Project-Based Learninghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFySmS9_y_0
Project-Based Learning from Start to Finishhttp://www.edutopia.org/stw-project-based-learning-best-practices-new-tech-video
Project-Based Learning for the 21st Centruywww.bie.org
Authentic Assessment
Authentic Assessment
Demonstrate understanding by performing a more complex task
Analyze, synthesize and apply learning and students create new meaning in the process as well.
Direct evidence of application and construction of knowledge
Traditional Authentic
Selecting a Response Performing a Task
Contrived Real-life
Recall/Recognition Construction/Application
Teacher-structured Student-structured
Indirect Evidence Direct Evidence
Authentic Assessment
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/index.htm
Eportfolio- https://sites.google.com/site/oh2learn/
Poll Everywhere- www.polleverywhere.com
Student Response Systems
Analysis/Critiques
Peer Review
Performances
Audience
Audience
AuthenticAppropriateEncourages AccountabilityBeyond the ClassroomExamples:
http://kimberlydarden.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bezhoK2Ak&feature=youtu.be
https://sites.google.com/site/cyborgstti/home
https://sites.google.com/site/teknowledgeexchange/home
Digital Medium
Digital Medium Web 2.0 Resources
Online learning management systems
Podcast
iTunes U
Youtube
Customized learning using gaming
Web conferencing
Cell phones
iPads
Bring your own devices
Open Education Resources (OER)
Don’t throw technology into the classroom and hope for good things.Focus on the change in pedagogy, not
technologyLearning 2.0 is about dramatically changing
the relationship between a teacher and students in the learning process.
Use technology for a student-focused, customized, collaborative learning environment.
How to become a better teacher in the digital age?
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies
Cut back on lecturing.You don’t have all the answers.Broadcast learning doesn’t work for this
generation.Start asking students questions and listen to
their answers.Listen to the questions students ask, too. Let
them discover the answer. Let them co-create a learning experience
with you.
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies (Cont.)
Empower students to collaborate.Encourage them to work with each other and
show them how to access the world of subject-matter experts available on the Web.
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies (Cont.)
Focus on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test.It’s not what they know when they
graduate that counts; it’s their capacity and love for lifelong learning that’s important.
Focus on teaching them how to learn – not what to know.
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies (Cont.)
Design educational programs according to the eight norms.
-should be choice-customization-transparency-integrity-collaboration-fun-speed-innovation in their learning experiences-leverage strengths of Net Gen culture and
behaviors in project-based learning
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies (Cont.)
Use technology to get to know each student and build self-paced, customized learning programs for them.
Reinvent yourself as a teacher, professor, or educator
Tapscott’s 7 Strategies (Cont.)
Blast Off for the Connected Educator
Promising Practices for Engaging LearnersWeb 2.0 Tools to Support Engaged
LearningProject-Based Learning (PBL) in Higher
Educationhttp://connectededucator.org
Contact Information
Dr. L. Kay Abernathy Dr. Cynthia Cummings [email protected] [email protected]
Dr. Sheryl Abshire Dr. Diane Mason [email protected] [email protected]
Presentation URLhttp://tinyurl.com/8jgovgn
