Next in the series of “Blogging about…” entries for October… Generational differences.
- DiigoNotes – The Knowledge Building Paradigm: A Model of Learning for Net Generation Students from Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org
Generation txt
Until next month…
October 22, 2009
Blogging About Generational Differences
September 27, 2009
Blackboard And Project Tomorrow Present The Latest In Online Learning Trends
This showed up in my inbox on Friday.
| Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update White Paper and Recorded Webinar Discussion |
Download the Paper and Listen to the WebinarAs students head back to school, it is important that educators are armed with the most up-to-date information concerning trends, opportunities and challenges related to online learning, as heard from the students themselves. To keep you informed, Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit group, and Blackboard have joined together to bring you Education in the 21st Century. This series of reports includes data from the Speak Up Survey and sheds light on issues related to learning and leading in K-12 education. Learning in the 21st Century: 2009 Trends Update, the latest report in the series, examines the growing student interest in online learning and how schools are meeting that demand. Download it now! You can also listen to a web presentation that explores this report. Hear Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, present the paper’s findings. She is also joined by Audie Rubin, Director, 21st Century Virtual Academy, Jeffco Public Schools (CO) and Natalie Carrignan, Director of Instructional Technology, Westport Public Schools (CT) who discuss their use of online learning to improve K-12 education. Blackboard K-12 helps districts deliver online learning solutions that are engaging and effective. If you have any questions or would like more information, please call us at 800.424.9299 ext 2427 or contact us online. |
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September 23, 2009
Blogging About Generational Differences
Next in the series of blogging about entries… Generational differences.
Multitasking (okay, not strictly generational differences – but often associated with them)
- Students May Not Be as Software-Savvy as They Think, Study Says – The Chronicle of Higher Education from Teaching and Developing Online
Not that many this month… Maybe the message about the truth of generational differences is finally getting through – see Online Learning & Dual Credit: A Case Of “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”? for my latest rant on this topic.
August 20, 2009
On Classroom 2.0: A Quick Reminder – Dr. Gary Small LIVE On Brain Changes Because Of Technology At 5pm PDT
This just came through my inbox… An event that begins in about 40 minutes…
A message to all members of Classroom 2.0
I’m just encouraging you to come to the interactive interview with Gary Small today. Dr. Small is the author of “iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.” He’ll be presenting on his book, and talking–among other fascinating ideas–how working delays dementia, how texting is rewiring kids’ brains, and the myth of multi-tasking. Not to be missed! (But if missed, don’t worry, there will be a recording… :)
The full event page is at http://www.conversations.net/forum/topics/gary-small-discusses-his-book. Direct login details for the Elluminate session are below.
Thursday, 20 August 2009
5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=20&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=137)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/convnet. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event.Cheers,
Steve
Steve Hargadon
Founder, Classroom 2.0
http://www.stevehargadon.com
steve@hargadon.comVisit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com
Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013
I posted a similar message last year (see Beloit College Class of 2012 Mindset List), while not strictly related to K-12 or online learning, always an informative read to get a better sense of the reality of today’s student (and a pretty good follow-up to the Blogging About Generational Differences entry).
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ron Nief (O) 608-363-2625
(C) 608-770-2625(The Beloit College Mindset Lists for previous years are available at http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/ . The current list and a webcast interview with the authors will be posted there at 12:01 a.m.on August 18.)
BELOIT COLLEGE RELEASES MINDSET LIST FOR THE CLASS OF 2013
Beloit, Wis. — If the entering college class of 2013 had been more alert back in 1991 when most of them were born, they would now be experiencing a severe case of déjà vu. The headlines that year railed about government interventions, bailouts, bad loans, unemployment and greater regulation of the finance industry. The Tonight Show changed hosts for the first time in decades, and the nation asked “was Iraq worth a war?”
Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college. It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Emeritus Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. It is used around the world as the school year begins, as a reminder of the rapidly changing frame of reference for this new generation. It is widely reprinted and the Mindset List website at http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/ receives more than 300,000 hits annually.
As millions of students head off to college this fall, most will continue to experience the economic anxiety that marked their first two years of life just as it has marked their last two years of high school. Fears of the middle class–including their parents–about retirement and health care have been a part of their lives. Now however, they can turn to technology and text a friend: “Momdad still worried bout stocks. urs 2? PAW PCM”.
Members of the class of 2013 won’t be surprised when they can charge a latté on their cell phone and curl up in the corner to read a textbook on an electronic screen. The migration of once independent media—radio, TV, videos and CDs—to the computer has never amazed them. They have grown up in a politically correct universe in which multi-culturalism has been a given. It is a world organized around globalization, with McDonald’s everywhere on the planet. Carter and Reagan are as distant to them as Truman and Eisenhower were to their parents. Tattoos, once thought “lower class,” are, to them, quite chic. Everybody knows the news before the evening news comes on.
Thus the class of 2013 heads off to college as tolerant, global, and technologically hip…and with another new host of The Tonight Show.
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The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013
Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991.
1. For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
