Easing Transitions Using Collaboration

Teaching the

Millennial Generation

Using Current Technology

Your Panel…

Chris Plaia Jeanne SwedoFounding Chair/English Dept. Library Media Specialist cplaia@jserra.org jswedo@jserra.org

JSerra Catholic High School http://www.jserra.org/library

Dr. David V. LoertscherProfessor, School of Library & Information Science

San Jose State University San Jose, CA

The Millennial Generation

Expect service Entitled

Sheltered Pressured

Negotiate with you

• Doing is more important than knowing

• Have zero tolerance for delays

• Are consumer & creator

• Deploy their attention “as needed”

So, they are differentBut, are they smarter?

Differences

• Globally aware• Different skill set -

multitasking• Learn what they need

when they need it (vg)• Learn by doing• More open online• Gravitate toward group

activity

Work habits

• Skim, power-browse• Poor writers• Cannot analyze or

integrate multiple sources• Don’t see the need to

authenticate or credit sources

• Poor note taking & time mgmt skills

They Believe… Education is a commodity to be consumed

‘Tell me what I need to know so I can get out of here’

(Dr. Michael Wesch, U.S. Prof. of the Year, 2008)

Kansas State Univ., Cultural Anthropology

How can this be?

Educational DisengagementDigital native:

“…born into and

raised in the digital

world.”

“The technology that

was supposed to make

young adults more

astute … had the

opposite effect.”

Diverted Distracted Devoured

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

High School to College

• 65% of professors say college freshmen are unprepared

U.S. HS grad rate~70%• Denmark-96%;• Japan 93%; • Poland 92%; • Italy 72%

(2008)

Studies indicate:

“Your First College Year” (Higher Education Research

Institute UCLA 2006)

44% are bored

disengaged

never discuss material

with professor

U.S. Dept. of Educ. (2008)

25%-50% of 1st year

college students end up

in remedial courses

because of poor

preparation in high school

How they search..

• 89% of college students use se to begin info search

(1st Google then Wikipedia)

• 93% satisfied w/ results

(OCLC study 2006)

(OCLC survey 2008)

They search horizontally,

bouncing thru websites

rather than vertical in-

depth searches

What is College Prep?

The Big Four

Key Cognitive StrategiesFormulate, Investigate, Evaluate, Understand,

Analyze non-routine

Key Content KnowledgeFor success in entry-level college classes (Conley 2008)

Key Self-management SkillsTrack info, organize, prioritize, est deadlines study alone & in groups

Key Knowledge about CollegeChoosing, applying, selecting, FA, then adjusting to college

Why Change? 26 yrs after A Nation at Risk (1983)

study about educational reform“Many 17-year-olds do not possess the "higher order" intellectual skills we should

expect of them. Nearly 40 percent cannot draw inferences from written material; only one-fifth can write a persuasive essay; and only one-third can solve a mathematics problem requiring several steps. “

5 yrs after NCLB

High school achievement has not improved

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html

The New Bloom’s Taxonomy

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember

Integrate Cellphones• Student response polling or pop

quizzes

• Use sms to find definitions, currency conversion, math equations, translation & more

• Internet browser to access info

• Research

• Read news articles & current events

• Read books

• Google Maps & use as GPS

• Digital or video camera for school projects, publishing, etc.

• Appropriate & acceptable social use

• Use voice tech to share lectures or lessons

Toys to Tools

Kolb , ISTE (2008)

Technology Integration Matrix:http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.html

www.Polleverywhere.comSend text message to 99503

• Question:

Where are you from?

Orange County: text 17294

CA, not OC: text 17295

U.S., not CA: text 17296

Outside U.S.: text 17293

K-12 plan: Up to 32 participants/free except text msg fee

Integrate Video

• YouTube• MIT (Open Courseware 1800)

• Discovery Streaming• TeacherTube• Library of Congress• Your own videos –

have them do a video on something they’ve learned in class this term

• Goomoodleikioghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOKJk-7K9gY

GoogleLitTrips

http://www.googlelittrips.org

Glogster

http://www.glogster.com/edu/

S-next

Integrate Games -- MMORPGProblem solving, decision making,

rapid feedback

Second Life/Teen SL• UCSC• NMSU• PSU (http://tlt.its.psu.edu)

Univ of Memphis

(2004) compared

Bates’ taxonomy of

games to Bloom’s taxonomyhttp://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0431a.pdf

CrazyTalk and iClone

GoogleForms

Surveys

500/17

Library JeopardyOPAC Dewey DS Databases

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Final Jeopardy

JSERRAWriting Stds

Aeries

Alliance Virtual Libraries Reference Desk

With Jecy, the Reference Librarian on duty.

Between the two main Alliance Virtual Libraries

They take donations, offer special exhibits,

and do fundraisers.

ALA Main Street

Classes, meetings, fairs, virtual conferences

are held at ALA Main Street.

SJSU Virtual Campus

Dr. Loertscher’s office in Second Life.

Penn State University Virtual Campus

Meetings, socials, and classes are held here.

ISTE – International Society for Technology in Education

ISTE’s SL broadcast studio for live streaming virtual meetings.

ISTE’s outdoor arena

Meeting space where slide programs and voice can be done.

DEN – Discovery Education Network

The DEN holds socials, meetings and classes in SL.

The Global ClassroomUse an aggregator:

• Join an SNS:

Microblog

NextGen Teachers

Women of Web 2

OnlineProjects4Teachers

• Speed geeking

Skype

Ning

LISTSERVs

Classroom 2.0• Publish student work

Wikispaces

Campus-Based CollaborationFreshmen integration – first year experience

Syllabus studies Team teach

Include Assessment Course Catalog

Works cited surveys Curriculum committee

Integrate

Standards Teacher PDBest Online Collaboration Tools 2009http://www.mindmeister.com/12213323

OUTREACHVertical Learning Partnerships

K-8 Visitations

Secondary

Post-secondary

Ed Tech professionals

OCDE

OCDE

Discovery Education

Start Something“The number of people who are

willing to start something

is smaller than the number

of people who

are willing to contribute

once someone else starts something”

(Shirky 239).

Where do these Collaborations take place?

The New Learning

Commons: Where

Learners Win!

By

Dr. David V. Loertscher,

et al. (2009)

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$100 Question from OPAC

What does OPAC stand for?

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$100 Answer from OPAC

What is:Online Public Access Catalog

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$200 Question from OPAC

What do you need to access the JSerra Library OPAC?

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$200 Answer from OPAC

What is:A computer and an Internet connection.

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Final Jeopardy

Who is your librarian?

Answer to Final Jeopardy

Batgirl.

Watch the Batman episode where Batgirl the librarian is introduced:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDnlrfq5QE

Use your library.