Presentation given at The Way Up XXV conference in Des Moines on 11/3. It explores the characteristics of millennials and how we can create a learning environment that best addresses their learning styles.
40. Choice
Long and Short Aims
Progress Indicators
Prompt/Meaningful Feedback
Reward ALL Successful Efforts
Failure is Real
Elements of Uncertainty/Awards
Socialization
41. Orchestrated Immersion
Complex, interactive
experiences
Relaxed Alertness
Safe and highly-challenging
environment
Active Processing
internalize info by actively
processing it
42.
43. Critical Thinking
Complex Communication
Creativity
Collaboration
Flexibility and Adaptability
Productivity and Accountability
Iowa Core Curriculum, 2010
44. Construction of Learning
Metacognition
Educator/Student Partnership
Collaborative Learning
Meaningful Assessment in a
Real World Context
Iowa Core Curriculum, 2010
45. World Without Oil
Demand > Supply (5%)
32 daysof crisis
Players live solutions
Collective Intelligence
Problem Solving
50. We must teach our students
for their tomorrows,
NOT our yesterdays.
51. We must teach our students
for their tomorrows,
NOT our yesterdays.
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Computers are NOT technologyInternet is better than TV
Betsy Sparrow at Columbia Published in July, 2011Hampers recall but improves retrieving information15th century when books were considered the end to intelligence as we knew it.
Rerouting it.Changing HOW we remember . Recalling info less and remembering where to find forgotten info more.“the brain is a specialized in its circuitry. If you repeat mental tasks over and over it will strengthen certain neural circuits and ignore others” Gary Small, Neuroscience professor at UCLA.
Make up 1/3 of US population 80 millionMost studied group of allReflection of sweeping changes – Continually connected.Photosharing toolDocument sharingVideo sharingInformation-co-editing toolSakai, Meez, edmodo