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Attracting and Holding The Attention of Those Millennial Digital Natives

Attracting and Holding The Attention of Those Millennial Digital Natives. Jill Robbins & Anup Mahajan National Capital Language Resource Center. Who are the millennials?. Also known as Generation Y, Echo/New Boomers, MTV Generation Term Millennials coined by Howe & Strauss (2000)

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Attracting and Holding The Attention of Those Millennial Digital Natives

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  1. Attracting and Holding The Attention of Those Millennial Digital Natives • Jill Robbins & Anup Mahajan • National Capital Language Resource Center

  2. Who are the millennials? • Also known as Generation Y, Echo/New Boomers, MTV Generation • Term Millennials coined by Howe & Strauss (2000) • Born between (approximately) 1981-2000 • Current age: 9 to 28 • Have always known computers, Internet, mobile phones

  3. Characteristics of Millenials • “..their online life is a whole lot bigger than just the Internet. This online life has become an entire strategy for how to live, survive and thrive in the 21st century, where cyberspace is a part of everyday life.” (Prensky, 2004: 2) • For this reason, Millennials in are referred to as Digital Natives

  4. Digital Natives in the Classroom • Our students are no longer “little versions of us,” as they may have been in the past. In fact, they are so different from us that we can no longer use either our 20th century knowledge or our training as a guide to what is best for them educationally (Prensky, 2007, p. 2). • If you lecture to them they tune out (or start texting under the desk)

  5. Educational Impact • Language-Learning Functions Facilitated • Communication  • Socializing • Evaluation • Searching  • Collecting • Sharing How Digital Natives Access Resources From Helen Mongan-Rallis

  6. The New Teaching Paradigm • Teachers need to allow & encourage students to use technology to teach themselves • Students need to share the resources they know how to access with teachers & peers

  7. Digital Communication • Blogs, rss feeds, email, webcasts, wikis, nings, polls, Moodles, Skype, iTunesU, Student response systems (clickers), FaceBook, Twitter

  8. Digital Socializing • Global Exchanges (Intercultural Email, class exchanges)

  9. Online Language Practice • Skype (Mixxer)

  10. NCLRC’s Resources • Tech for Teachers: Tutorials, Resources & Articles; Blogs • For Students: Webcasts; Teen Interview Podcasts, YouTube Channel

  11. Evaluation - Self-Assessment • Portfolio Assessment: • NCLRC’s Portfolio Assessment Guide • LinguaFolio: Student portfolio • Teacher training on Linguafolio

  12. How do you empower your student’s digital skills?

  13. Ways Students Access Resources • Searching • Collecting • Sharing

  14. Success Stories

  15. High school: Moodle,Ning (for blogging) • College/HS: Facebook (for students & parents), Moodle for internet classes/online instruction • Middle school: Quia.com (homework, games for vocab, tracking, quizzes, audio & visual clips), PBWiki • Other: Voicethread,Audacity, resources from CLEAR

  16. Let’s build an online community

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