Teaching the MillennialsIs there an App for that?

Linda Probyn University of Toronto

Karen Finlay McMaster University

Keep your phones out!

Linda Probyn – No DisclosuresKaren Finlay – No Disclosures

Turn to your neighbour

Describe the difference between learners today versus

how you learned

What’s the difference?

Thoughts?

Objectives

• Define the millennial learner• What is different?

• What does this mean for us? • How do we adapt?

• How do we do it?• New innovations

Why change?

“Lectures are a way of transferring the instructor’s lecture notes to the students’ notebooks without passing through the brains of either.”

Edwin Emery Slosson

It’s not what or how you teachIt’s what your audience learns!

Have our learners changed?

• Digital natives

• Think and process info differently

• Not fully engaged in lectures or textbooks

• Use mobile technology:• Social

• Entertainment

• Learning

The Millennial learner – who are they ?

Millennials“Gen Y”

1981-2004

IT natives

Constant contact –

social media

Information sharing

Variety

Easy access to resources

Self-learning

By the time students born after 1982 are

21 years old, they will have engaged in video

game playing 2 times and TV watching 4

times more often than reading!

The mobile internet....will not be just a way to do old things while moving. It will be a way to do things that couldn’t be done before.”

- Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold 2002

Canadian Internet Data

Second highest use of internet globally,

averaging 41.3 hr/month on line

6/10 Canadians access their internet

via a mobile device

1 in 5 millennials no longer uses a desktop for

on-line access, relying exclusively on phone

and tablet

Canadian Internet Registration Authority

(CIRA) – Fact book 2014

The Millennial learner – how to engage them

Relevance Enhance connection with the subject

Rationale Like reasoning; don’t readily accept the “chain of command”

Relaxed Thrive in less formal and constrictive environments

Rapport Want teachers who are accessible, approachable

Research-based Like creative learning, variety of methods

methodswww.apa.org March 2010

Digital Native

Digital Immigrant

Digital Alien

What does this all mean for me?

• We are no longer a sole source of information for our students

• Get creative!

• Need to learn about resources

E-Learning and M-Learning

Electronic – E-learning – has long been integrated into education

• Wired learning spaces

• Laptops and desktops

• Still requires computer to interface with material

Mobile – M-learning

• Will make E-learning outdated

M or E- Learning vs Traditional Learning

M-learning or E-learning:

• Knowledge gains similar or superior• Greater learning efficiency• Improved clinical decision making• Greater satisfaction

Traditional learning – at the bedside

• M-learning allows resource availability, even at the bedside!

• “Point of need”

M-Learning: Anytime, Anywhere

Subset of E-learning using handheld devices

• Takes advantage of portable technology

• Eliminates time & location hindrances

• Places learning in the hands of learners

Mobile devices:

• phones, PDAs, media players (ipods), tablets

• 3 main App platforms:

• Apple – IOS

• RIM – Blackberry Apps

• Google Android

M-Learning:

How do I find them?

• Recommendations peers/students

• www.imedicalapps.com

• www.appolicious.com

• www.iteachmed.ca

• Webcina

• http://onlinenursingprograms.net/100-awesome-iphone-apps-for-med-students-and-doctors/

M-Learning:

• Can no longer ask if mobile devices WILL support teaching and learning …. We KNOW they are!

• Need to respect Guidelines and Policies (CPSO, University, Hospital)

Principles:

1. Respect for privacy and confidentiality

2. Professional and respectful

3. Individual responsibility for content transmitted

4. Transmission utilizing secure networks

What else has changed?

Assessment – what’s changed?

• Portfolios

• Multisource feedback

• Daily encounters

• Simulation

• EPA & milestones

Increased frequency

Memory

Pedagogies

Assessment & evaluation

Active learning

Technology in education

Learning styles

Building Evidence

Change - How can we do it?

Different teaching & learning techniques:

• On-line learning tools

• Active learning

• Innovative techniques

• Apps

TEACHING TECHNIQUES

What is teaching innovation?

Teaching Innovation

• Technology

• Curriculum

• Pedagogy

• Assessment

Activities that promote

• Analysis

• Synthesis

• Retention

Active Learning

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Techniques

• Flipped Classroom

• Audience response

• Think, pair, share

• Simulation

• Videos

• Case Examples

• Role playing

• Reflection

• Games

Traditional classroom

Flipped classroom2 components:• Self learning• Active teaching session

Video or web info or article on imaging topic

Pretest – MCQ or cases

Short lecture on topic

Group exercise or cases

Case review with audience response

Pre-learning

Active learning session

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Audience Response

• Participants can respond:• Website

• Smartphone App

• Text

PollEv

Think, Pair, Share

Simulation

Eric Mazur

eflection

Learners think about:

• Strengths & areas for improvement

• How to address the gap

• Making change

M-Learning: Example games in Medicine

• http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/

• http://www.theonlinelearningcenter.com/free-online-medical-games.aspx

• http://med.stanford.edu/septris/

• http://www.congregate.com/games/sage880/medical-school

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Challenges for technology in education

• Different skill sets between

instructors and learners

• Rapid changes in software &

hardware

• Cost

• Does the tool enhance the learning?

• F#@! factor

Benefits for technology in education

• Fosters independent learning

• Collaboration

• Increased attention

• Higher level of learning skills

• Assists in learning difficult concepts

• Clarifies understanding & application

• Generates new questions

Innovative Teaching: take home points

• It’s here

• It’s an opportunity

• Play!

• Don’t be fearful

• You can do it ….. Really!!

Thanks for your attention!

Special thanks to:

Petra Lewis

Dartmouth University

Shirley Tse

University of Toronto