What Students Need: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

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What Students Need Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

• Jeff D Borden, M.A.

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Fantastic Machine
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v_6MHpFIyjcY
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What Students Need

• NOT What Teachers Need
• Money
• Time
• Money
• Better Students

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Perspective
http//fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i003702
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Students Need
Understanding Special Places Teaching
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Starting to Understand

• 75 of people under 25 do not and will not use
  one
• 90 of people under 25 will use one less than 2X
  per month
• What is it?

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Students Need Understanding

• Why Do Non-traditional Students Go Back To
  School? (SLOAN-C)
• Child in school -- Illness -- Loss of a job
  -- personal development -- make money

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Students Need Understanding

• 2007 7.7 Million students took an online course
  from a degree granting institution (doubled from
  2002 2005 - 2007) --The Sloan Consortium
• College Students in 2007
• Only 20 fit the 18-22 residential stereotype
• Average age is 27 (with one-quarter over 30)
• Most are commuters
• Over 40 are part-time students (with jobs and
  families)
• Most are pursuing college for career purposes (to
  get a better job, not to get away from home or
  grow up)
• 78 wish more online classes were offered
• http//milproj.ummu.umich.edu/publications/diamond
  _presentation/tsld022.htm

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Understanding the Individual

• Differentiation By definition, differentiation
  is wary of approaches to teaching and learning
  that standardize. Standard-issue students are
  rare, and educational approaches that ignore
  academic diversity in favor of standardization
  are likely to be counterproductive in reaching
  the full range of learners. Tomlinson (2006)

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Understanding Learning

• Multiple Learning Styles / Learning Theories
• Sensory
• Audio / Visual / Kinesthetic / Etc.
• Personality
• Myers-Briggs / Etc.
• Aptitude
• Verbal / Visual
• Active / Reflective
• Sequential / Global
• Sensing / Intuitive
• Symbolic / Multiple Intelligences / Etc.
• Transformative
• Kettering Students

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Kettering
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vP8mgDVZOZ-M
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Evolution of Distance Education
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Generation M

• Multi-tasker
• Media
• Multi-Modal
• Multi-Nodal
• Students Need Variance

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Variance (Variety)
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Media-Based Learning

• Neo-Millennial Learning
• Situated Learning
• Distributed Learning
• Multi-tasking
• Context Based Learning
• Foundational AND Just In Time
• Focus Shifting

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Phrase Exercise Game
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B 15 B on a P T 56 KbPS
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Managing Expectations
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vdGCJ46vyR9o
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Managing Expectations

• Students dont wantthey EXPECT
• If they dont get ittheyll go elsewhere
• Now that we understand

• Expertise
• Collaboration
• Diversity
• Technology
• Practicality
• Flexibility
• Ability to manage business and personal lives
• Motivation

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Students Need

• Special Places!...

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Students Need A Place To

• Succeed
• University of Hawaii Survey (2004) Constructive
  (negative) comments 17 instances per student
  per course per term Praise (positive) comments
  4 instances per student per course per term

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Students Need A Place To

• Fail
• SIMS
• Eye Simulator
• Practice
• Assessment
• Self-Checks
• Interactivity

http//cim.ucdavis.edu/eyes/version15/eyesim.html
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Students Need A Place To

• GROW
• Grow Up
• Leaders In Thought
• The best leader is the one who has sense enough
  to pick good people to do what needs to be done,
  and self-restraint to keep from meddling with
  them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt

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Students Need A Place To

• Work
• Territoriality
• Standardization

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Students Need A Place To

• Gripe
• Admin
• Instructor
• Student Services
• Student Story

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Students Need A Place To

• Play
• Game Theory vs Gaming Elements
• Prisoners Dilemma
• Timers, Clocks, Points, Puzzling, Etc.
• M.U.V.E.s / Augmented Reality
• Discover Babylon
• River City

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Discover Babylon
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vWlqafevXOWY
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Discover Babylon

• History
• Politics
• Monetary Systems
• Sociology
• Anthropology
• Botany
• Math
• Chemistry
• Physics

• The Definition of Curriculum Integration
• An integration is a philosophy of teaching in
  which content is drawn from several subject areas
  to focus on a particular topic or theme.

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Students Need

• Media Based Learning

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Navy Simulators
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Mystery _at_ MIT

• 2 Versions
• For Credit
• For Fun
• Curriculum Integration
• Nursing
• Engineering
• Chemistry
• Journalism
• Political Science

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Students Need

• Understanding
• Special Places
• And

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Students Need

• Story
• The Firm
• Teaching Stories

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Students Need

• Educational Immediacy
• The perceived physiological or psychological
  closeness in the teacher / student relationship
• Pets
• Hobbies
• Subject Matter into Real Life
• Teacher in the storeRUN!

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Students NeedTo Learn

• Learn to how Learn
• An educators number one responsibility is to
  prepare independent learners who continue to
  learn on their own. - Dan Rather (1994)
• Formal
• School
• Informal
• Continuing Education
• Nonformal
• Lifelong Learning

• Where Does Learning Happen?
• Classrooms, TV, On the job, Work
• Get them ready to go
• Research
• Communicate
• Critical Thinking

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Students Need

• Community
• Networking
• Group Work
• 72 of work is spent in teams / 7 of school is
  spent in groups In Mixed Company (Rothwell,
  2005)

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Students Need

• Preparation for the FUTURE
• Job Applications
• 2004 50 of workers skills become outdated in
  3-5 years (Shank Sitze)
• Technology fields this number decreases by ½
• Password Management
• Not afraid of the future
• http//www.wfs.org/Nov-Dec20Files/TOPTEN.htm

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Smaller and smaller
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Information Gathering

• Google, Ask, Yahoo
• SMS
• Wikipedia
• Twine, Social Bookmarking

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Video Phones
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Google Earth
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Virtual Bejing
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More and more space
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Students Need

• Media
• Bandwidth
• 2006 84 million US residents have high speed
• 2006 73 of US residents have access to the
  Internet
• By 2010 70 of students will have high-speed
• USA Today (June, 2006)

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Video

• YouTube
• Channels
• Clips
• BigThink
• Educational

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ePaper
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Medical Breakthroughs
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Medical Breakthroughs
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3-D Desktops
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3-D Desktops
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New Ways to Interface
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Second Life
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Web 2.0

• Not just blogs wikis
• Do your students
• Create
• Consume
• Remix
• Share

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Its Coming
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Important Future Quote

• In the long run, excesses of technology mean
  that the comparative advantage shifts from those
  with information glut to those with ordered
  knowledge from those who can process vast
  amounts of blab to those who can explain what is
  worth knowing and why (Ratinoff, 1995)
• Sieving

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Ages In History
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Hard To Teach Classes

• Art
• http//fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i003702
• Psychomotor
• Medicine
• P.E.

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Students Need

• Ethics
• Cheating
• A 2004 poll of high school students found that 59
  percent agreed that "successful people do what
  they have to do to win, even if others consider
  it cheating." Christian Science Monitor
• Mentos Dasani
• Plagiarism
• www.cheathouse.com
• www.classucks.com

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Students Need

• Authentic Assessment Tasks
• Standards

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Todays Students
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v_M_336pDWoM
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Students Need TEACHERS!
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Resources

• Learning for the 21st Century www.21stcenturyskil
  ls.com
• A Federal Perspective The State of eLearning
  www.NationalEdTechPlan.org
• Making the Grade Reinventing Americas Schools
  Tony Wagner www.essentailschools.org/cs/resource
  s/view/ces_res/206
• Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)
  Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
  Study, 2006
• The American Freshman National Norms for Fall
  2005, Graduate School of Education Information
  Studies / University of California, Los Angeles /
• http//www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.htm Register
  for the 2006 CIRP Freshman Survey
• www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/cirp_register.html
  Paradigm Pioneers Joel Barker, 1993
• The Owners Manual for the Brain Pierce Howard,
  PhD, 1999
• Ian Jukes www.ianjukes.com
• Schmoker, M., Marzano, R.J., (1999) Realizing the
  Promise of Standards-Based Education. Educational
  Leadership, Vol. 56, No. 6, March 1999.

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Resources

• Dede, Chris. (2006). Webcast Emerging
  educational technologies and neomillennium
  learning styles. Retrieved October 14, 2007, from
  http//publishing.about.com/arts/publsihing/librar
  y/weekly/aa072200b.htm
• Wiggins, G., McTighe, J., Tomlinson, C.A.
  (2006). Understanding by design and
  differentiated instruction Partners in classroom
  success . San Francisco, CA ASCD Publishing.
• TIMSS http//nces.ed.gov/timss/
• The Language of Learning A Guide to Education
  Terms, by J. L. McBrien R. S. Brandt, p. 55,
  1997, Alexandria, VA Association for Supervision
  and Curriculum Development.

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Thank You!

• Jeff D Borden, M.A.
• Director of Academic Training Consulting
• jborden_at_jeffpresents.com