knowing your learners: digital natives?. tell us about yourself……
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KNOWING YOUR LEARNERS: KNOWING YOUR LEARNERS: DIGITAL NATIVES?DIGITAL NATIVES?
Tell us about yourself……
QUESTIONS TO ASK OF EACH OTHER• NAME• DEPARTMENT• TEACHING BACKGROUND• GENERAL INTERESTS• WHY THEY ENROLLED IN THIS WORKSHOP • USE OF TECH IN THEIR TEACHING• ISSUE THEY WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS• PROBLEM OR SUCCESS STORY TO SHARE? • ONE OR TWO RELATED QUESTIONS OF YOUR
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OVERVIEW OF AREAS WE WILL COVER
TODAY: • KNOWING YOUR LEARNERS AND DEVELOPING
LARGE SCALE E-LEARNING PROJECTSTOMORROW: • EXPLORING WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND EXPLORING
ONLINE FACILITATION STRATEGIES
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......LEARNER-CENTRED EDUCATION ......LEARNER-CENTRED EDUCATION IS AIS A COLLECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE COLLECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE
ENTERPRISE!ENTERPRISE!
Broad background questions would like to explore in 2 days
• What are the general characteristics of today’s learners?
• How might we take these characteristics into consideration when we teach & design online learning spaces
• What is Learner-Centred education and how might learning technologies foster or supportthis kind of learning?
• What role does the instructor play within learner-centred environments
• How is the role of the teacher/professor changing as a result?
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......what are some of the other general ......what are some of the other general characteristics / tendencies that characteristics / tendencies that
contemporary students display – according contemporary students display – according to Net Gen Theorists?to Net Gen Theorists?
connectedconnected
immediate
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experientialexperiential
socialsocial
teamworkteamwork
structurestructure
engagement and experienceengagement and experience
visual and kenethticvisual and kenethtic
What impact might these What impact might these characteristics / tendencies characteristics / tendencies
have on our teaching practices have on our teaching practices and on our colleges and on our colleges
&universities in general?&universities in general?
Another way to ask-Another way to ask-how might we take these how might we take these
characteristics into consideration characteristics into consideration when we teach and design online when we teach and design online learning environments with our learning environments with our
students…..?students…..?
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Comments…?
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interactivityinteractivity
KNOWING YOUR LEARNERS: KNOWING YOUR LEARNERS: DIGITAL NATIVES?DIGITAL NATIVES?
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Total individuals 16-74 years old 575,877 51,137 161,924 69,120 38,749 181,823 73,124
Most recent use of the Internet
The first quarter of 2008 223,309 35,868 73,696 8,715 27,945 73,213 3,871
During the period April – December 2007 20,373 3,169 6,712 968 2,449 6,108 968
Before April 2007 19,462 2,737 5,979 769 1,873 7,540 564
Never 312,733 9,363 75,536 58,668 6,482 94,961 67,722
Frequency of Internet usage
Daily 139,056 20,023 51,908 5,306 16,710 43,033 2,076
Weekly 64,506 12,244 17,818 2,583 9,075 21,415 1,371
Monthly 14,398 2,593 2,786 545 1,729 6,464 282
Less than once a month 5,349 1,008 1,184 282 432 2,301 141
Places where Internet was accessed
At home 171,086 28,666 59,822 6,960 20,887 51,869 2,884
At place of work (other than home) 108,659 2,737 46,039 4,172 3,601 50,418 1,692
At place of education 26,007 11,956 655 0 13,396 0 0
At other people's houses 41,303 13,396 9,820 404 10,516 7,027 141
At other places 31,838 11,668 10,582 243 5,186 4,018 141
At Internet Café 20,213 9,651 5,317 0 3,169 2,076 0
At Hotspot 8,574 2,449 4,081 0 1,152 892 0
Use of mobile devices to accesss the Internet
Mobile phone via GPRS 14,881 3,601 7,574 282 1,440 1,843 141
Mobile phone via UMTS (3G) 4,822 864 2,542 0 720 695 0
Handheld computer (palmtop, PDA) 4,383 1,008 2,938 0 0 437 0
Portable computer (laptop) via wireless connection away from home or work 19,075 4,610 5,628 0 5,186 3,652 0
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Most recent use of the Internet (% on all individuals)
The first quarter of 2008 38.8 70.1 45.5 12.6 72.1 40.3 5.3
During the period April – December 2007 3.5 6.2 4.1 1.4 6.3 3.4 1.3
Before April 2007 3.4 5.4 3.7 1.1 4.8 4.1 0.8
Never 54.3 18.3 46.6 84.9 16.7 52.2 92.6
Frequency of Internet usage (% on individuals who used the Internet in the first quarter of the year)
Daily 62.3 55.8 70.4 60.9 59.8 58.8 53.6
Weekly 28.9 34.1 24.2 29.6 32.5 29.3 35.4
Monthly 6.4 7.2 3.8 6.3 6.2 8.8 7.3
Less than once a month 2.4 2.8 1.6 3.2 1.5 3.1 3.6
Places where Internet was accessed (% on individuals who used the Internet in the first quarter of the year)
At home 76.6 79.9 81.2 79.9 74.7 70.8 74.5
At place of work (other than home) 48.7 7.6 62.5 47.9 12.9 68.9 43.7
At place of education 11.6 33.3 0.9 0.0 47.9 0.0 0.0
At other people's houses 18.5 37.3 13.3 4.6 37.6 9.6 3.6
USAGE IN HOUSEHOLDS AND BY INDIVIDUALS, 2008
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)
Males FemalesB2b: INDIVIDUALS: INTERNET USAGE
B2b: INDIVIDUALS: INTERNET USAGE (%)Males Females
Total
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