My presentation on educational technology for teaching in undergraduate medical education
Text of Teaching generation z
1. Deirdre Bonnycastle February 27 th 2012
2. Has had access to the Internet from birth Has had access to
email since elementary school Has been using social networking
programs since high school
3. May think they can multitask, but cant Has access to
information overload like no other generation May not know how to
access legitimate information (science vs opinion) May never have
been exposed to educational technology.
4. Growing exponentially, too rapidly to keep up Start with
your objectives and choose technology to help achieve that
objective Involve your students by asking If we want to do X, what
tools might we use.
5. Have the librarian teach a class in search literacy Create a
social bookmarking account for your class where they can share
articles Create a class newsletter Learn to use Twitter Learn about
Apps, Simulators, Case sites
7. Students can see how others write which helps improve their
writing Other students can comment on what was written thus
improving everyones reflection and discussion skills Other
professionals can comment on what students writes thus engaging
them in professional discourse
8. UofS http://www.usask.ca/its/services/webpage_
hosting/blogs/ Blogger http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g Google
Doc http://youtu.be/zApehuekC-M
9. Creates document that can be edited by agroup Team task
Committee Research group Case based learning
10. U of S http://www.usask.ca/its/services/webpage_
hosting/wiki/ Blackboard has a wiki tool PBworks
http://pbworks.com/ Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/