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AdvisingAdvisingJosh Nichols, Dickinson State University

Overview

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Evaluating the limitations of

traditional advising approaches. Cheap/Free Technologies Planning: What technologies could I

try at my institution. Wrap-up Discussion Questions Collect Evaluations

The Generations

Generation Born

Builders/Matures Before 1946

Boomers 1946-1964

Generation X 1965-1979

Generation Y 1980-1994

Generation Z 1995-2009

Generation AA? 2010-???

The Language of the Net Gen

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)

Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language.

“Today’s Students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.”

“Digital Immigrants typically have very little appreciation for these new skills that the Natives have acquired and perfected through years of interaction and practice.”

Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)

“Digital Immigrants learn – like all immigrants, some better than others – to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past.”

Accents

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)

Printing your email. Making hard copies to be edited. Showing someone a website rather

then forwarding it to them. Reading the manual for a program

rather than assuming that the program itself will teach us to use it.

The “Did you get my email?” phone call.

Academically Driven Creators and

Explorers Technologically

Adept Service-Minded Social Creatures Multi-taskers Mobile UsersFather Google and Mother IM (Carie Windham 2207)

Neomillennial Learning Preferences

Us Versus Them

Who They Are Vs. Who We See

Their Cons Vs. Our Cons

What They Want Vs. What We’re Willing to Do

Activity #1

Discuss with each other the problems and/or limitations you are facing using traditional methods of communication.

Discuss some of the difficulties you currently face when utilizing technology to connect with students and/or maximize time.

Share your thoughts with the group.

Technology Concerns

What if my students aren’t computer literate?

What if my students don’t have a computer or the Internet?

How do you expect me to do my current job AND learn a new technology?

Our university can’t afford these new technologies (or it’s not a priority).

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Activity #2

Discuss with each other what new technologies you plan to utilize and/or what might you change about the way you currently use technology.

Brainstorm which technologies could enhance what you are already doing to communicate with and assist students.

Share your thoughts with the group.

Imperfect and Unstoppable

Technology is great . . . when it works. It’s efficient . . . but time consuming. The Internet is informative . . . if you

can sift through the garbage. There are hundreds of options . . . but

no one solution. It’s unstoppable . . . whether we like it

or not.

Questions?

Related Materials

Oblinger, Diana G. and James L. Oblinger, editors. Educating the Net Generation. Educause, June 2005.

Prensky, M. (2001a, September/October). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5), 1-6. Retrieved April 30, 2003, from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Pletka, Bob. Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2007.

Contact Info

Josh NicholsEducational Enhancement

Services291 Campus Drive

Dickinson, ND 58601

joshua.nichols@dsu.nodak.edu