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Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab Università della Svizzera italiana

The so-called Generation Y, Learning and Digital Technologies: What’s Real and What’s Just Hype in a Fortunate Label. Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano - Switzerland lorenzo.cantoni@usi.ch www.newmine.blogspot.com.

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Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab Università della Svizzera italiana

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  1. The so-called Generation Y, Learning and Digital Technologies: What’s Real and What’s Just Hype in a Fortunate Label Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano - Switzerland lorenzo.cantoni@usi.chwww.newmine.blogspot.com

  2. The University The NewMinE lab E-ethnography, eLearning in Tourism, ICT4D A brief intro

  3. Mapping the debate

  4. Schulmeister / Buckingham / Bennet, Maton & Kervin “Generation” + over-generalizations + anecdotal evidence + technologies vs. usages + American-centrism + social panic + … A plethora of recipe books / Prêt-à-porter solutions Critical voices

  5. Margaryan & Littlejohn, 2008 • “The findings show that many young students are far from being the epitomic global, connected, socially-networked technologically-fluent digital native who has little patience for passive and linear forms of learning. ... Educators therefore cannot presume that all young students are “digital natives” who understand how to use technology to support and enhance their learning.”

  6. Media diet ICT and Learning practices/preferences Local & limited Twoprojects

  7. GenY @ work • 2009 • 236 employees born after 1980 • average age: 23.3 • 127 male: 53.8%, and 109 female: 46.2% • Six companies of the Canton Tessin (Switzerland) • three banks, one consulting company, a provider of industrial gas turbines, and a local newspaper • Quantitative and qualitative approach • survey • projective methodology

  8. Learners’ voices @ USI-SUPSI • 2010 • University and University of Applied Science • 562 students • 12.6% out of 4,449 BA and MA students • 318 female (56.6%), 244 male (43.4%). • average age 24.5 years, median 23 • different Faculties/Departments • 56.2% from Switzerland, 24.9% from Italy, 12.5% from other European countries, while 3.6% from Asia, 1.8% South America, 1.1% from North and Central America and Africa. • Questionnaire in Italian and English

  9. A rich learning diet

  10. Students: technologies used • For learning related activities, they use • search engine (90.6%) • portable computer (86.1%) • USB memory stick (84.7%) • text editor (77.6%) • presentation editor (69.4%)

  11. In your study, you use ICT to…

  12. Collaborative projects • Technologies used • e-mail (92.0%) • portable phone (75.0%) • Instant messaging tools (e.g.: Skype, 32.4%) • Chat (27.9%) • Learning Management System (11.3%) • Male do use Instant messaging tools more than their female colleagues (40.6% vs. 26.0%) • Female students do use more USB memory sticks, text and presentations editors • Selecting a team mate: 25.0% male students and 19.8% female students do consider colleagues’ ICT competencies

  13. Perception of eLearning • “eLearning is an important element in my courses” (51.0%) • “eLearning is one of the many important components in my courses” (43.2%) • ICT did improve… • the way I do my homework (83.6%) • the way I collaborate with my colleagues (76.6%) • the way I study (76.2%) • the way I attend to my hobbies and interests (72.2%) • the way I stay in contact with relatives and friends (65.2%) • the way in which I share my ideas and creations (58.0%)

  14. An internal digital divide? • GenY@work • 96 technologies presented by Lego models, 49 in the “private life”, 14 in the “workplace”, and 36 straddling both parts • Learners’ voices @ USI-SUPSI • ICT daily use • query a search engine (79.3%) • read/write e-mail (78.1%) • watch a movie / listen to audio files (38.5%) • read newsletters (36.6%) • read newspapers (34.8%) • create/update profile on social networks (30.9%)

  15. A Lego map home vs. work

  16. No simple direct eLearning recipes can be derived eLearning as a context: every learning in the knowledge society eLearning as a strategy conclusions

  17. Conclusion To have more and better eLearning, we do not necessarily need more ICT, we need to be aware of their role in the overall living experience of learners and teachers (context), and to activate them if and when needed (strategy).

  18. Thank you! Prof. PhD Lorenzo Cantoni NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano - Switzerland lorenzo.cantoni@usi.chwww.newmine.blogspot.com

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