Course Tech 2013, Mark Frydenberg, Student Voices in the World of Social and Digital Learning

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Social media and mobile devices have changed how today’s students behave and learn. The social web has put students in a world where being digitally literate, constantly-connectedmulti-taskers is expected. Instructors respond with new teaching methods such as the flipped classroomand collaborative learning environments to promote student engagement, but do these activities help students translate their technology skills into a professional context? This session explores the impact of social and digital media on student learning and ways that faculty and students can use these tools to engage with each other both inside and outside the classroom.

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Student Voices in a World of Social and Digital Learning

Mark FrydenbergBentley University

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• Who are Students Today?

• Social Learning• Digital Learning

• Who are Students Today?

• Social Learning• Digital Learning

“they rely on the most basic search tools and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web.”

Today’s digital literaciesof attention, participation, collaboration, crap detection, and network smarts can make the difference between being empowered or manipulated, serene or frenetic.

“as people optimize their ability to multitask online, they become less creative in their thinking.”

the Web is a technology forforgetfulness where being constantly connected and multitasking adds clutter, not clarity to our minds

You know, I came home and turned on the TV. This new generation comes home and they turn on their computer, and they're in three different windows, they've got three magazines open, ...

Rethinking How We TeachThe 'Net Generation'

they're listening to iTunes, texting with their friends and talking to them. They may have a video game going - oh yeah, and they're doing their homework.

Rethinking How We TeachThe 'Net Generation'

DIGITAL LITERACY

DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT

Tell me what I may already

know and show me how much

more there is to learn!

Critical Thinking

Small Units

Blue text leads to

more info online

Screens add context

Mini features on current

topics

• Who are Students Today?

• Social Learning• Digital Learning

Minds on Fire / JS Brown

The most profound impact of the Internet is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning.

Engage Me or Enrage Me

it’s not relevance that’s lacking for this generation, it’s engagement

the natives are revolting

children may have skills in the use of technology, but teachers have the skills and knowledge to create engaging and exciting learning opportunities and environments

June 2012

What happens in your classroom?

Engaged?

Engaged?

http://zoom.it/roft

ImplementationWatch Video at Home

5 Question Quick Quiz

Small Group Exercise

Reader, Doer , Checker

Sharing and Reflection

Students 66 students (40 male,

26 female)

3 academically diverse sections of IT 101 (22 Honors, 17 Accelerated, 27 Evening)

Have the same Instructor (Me!)

Flip Your Classroom

Videos

Quick Quiz (5 min)

Work together in small groups to complete this assignment.

Take turns being the reader, doer, and checker.

The reader reads an instruction aloud while the doer

completes it in Excel.

The checker helps the doer if the doer needs help and

confirm that each step is completed correctly.

Help each other out, look up how to do things in the book if

you’re not sure, and if you’re still stuck, ask me!

Activity (45 min)

Visit http://data.worldbank.org/. Navigate to Data, then Indicators and explore the data sets that are available.

Select a data set of interest that has at least 5 years’ worth of values.

Download the data. Import it into Excel.

Create a worksheet named Group Members. Include the names of the members of your group.

Examine your data. If there are many f empty columns, hide or delete them. Keep at least 10 years’ worth of data.

Create spark lines for the data. Add spark line markers.

Filter the data to display only those countries that begin with the letter A.

Create a new sheet named “A countries.”

Copy row 1 (the header row), and the all of the rows for all of the countries that begin with A to a new sheet.

Create a line chart showing all of the data on one graph, where each line is a different country.

Label the horizontal and vertical axes .The legend should go at the bottom

The legend labels should be the country abbreviations. Horizontal axis should show the years

Your graph should have a title. Place the chart on its own worksheet

Change the filter to display another subset of the data that you choose.

Copy the header row and all of the data to a new sheet.

Create a bar chart for the last 4 years of available data. Add appropriate labels, legends, titles, and formatting styles to your chart. Place

the chart on its own worksheet.

Place the file in a Dropbox folder shared with the members of your group so that each group member will have access to this file on their own computers.

Each group member should submit the (same) file to Blackboard to get credit for completing this assignment.

Student Comments

• Who are Students Today?

• Social Learning• Digital Learning

BYOD

LWYOD

Cell phones in school

Exercisesto Flip!

Try These!

Beyond the Book

Go Beyond the

Book!

Windows and Mac: Evernote

You Review It!

facebook.com/DiscoveringComputers

facebook.com/DiscoveringComputers

@DiscoveringComp

padlet

http://youtu.be/v6lMidsVqE8

Survey

Does Your Computer Lab look like this?

http://cis.bentley.edu/sandbox

Survey

Does Your Computer Lab look like this?

http://cis.bentley.edu/sandbox

Crunch Sessions

Crunch Session

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Students Scored!

• Who are Students Today?

• Social Learning• Digital Learning

Mark Frydenberg

mfrydenberg@bentley.educis.bentley.edu/

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