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Deone Zell

New Trends in Education:

Digital Tools and Technologies for Today's Learners

Deone Zell, Ph.D.CSUN

Something is happening….

Technology Trends• Then and now

• Screens and devices

• Horizon Report

• Down the line

CSUN Activities• Lecture capture

• Flipping the classroom

• eTexts

• Tablets

• Content creation

Today’s Students• Digital natives

Who Are Our Students?

Baby Boomers - born 1946-64• Now age 49-67

Gen Y - born 1965 - 1981• Now age 32-48

Millennials - born 1982 - 2000• Now age 15-31

iGen - born 2001 - 2013• Now age 14 and under

CSUN average 24

Digital Natives

Grew up with technology

Facebook, YouTube, Hulu, Twitter

Smartphones and tablets

Retrieve information fast

Parallel process and multi-task

Prefer graphics before text

Prefer random access (hypertext)

Function best when networked

Thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards

Prefer texting to email

Digital Immigrants (anyone over 30) Born before the introduction of

digital technology

Use radio, television, newspapers, books, magazines

Prefer long-form writing

Prefer email to texting

Adopted PCs and laptops

They are adapting

Source: Marc Prensky, Marc Prensky, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, On the Horizon, 2001

In a land of

Digital natives grew up on social media

So what has changed(for us digital immigrants)?

User Interfaces

Source: Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Where’s the nearest Thai restaurant?

Magazines


Devices


Books

THEN NOW

Paper based / Singular copy Electronic / Syncable / Multiple devices

Communications


Photography


Navigating


Hearing News


Note Taking


File Storage


Cash Registers


Signatures


Health Awareness


Door Locks


Thermostats


Knowledge


Education


Learning

From learning by listening to learning by doingEducation could become as fun as videogames


What about those screens and devices?

“Young Americans from the ages of 8 to 18 spend more than 7 ½ h a day on average

using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20wired.html

Source: http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/multiscreenworld_final.pdf. Market research conducted by Ipsos and Sterling Brands in partnership with Google

http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/multiscreenworld_final.pdf

Source: http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/multiscreenworld_final.pdf. Market research conducted by Ipsos and Sterling Brands in partnership with Google

http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/multiscreenworld_final.pdf

Advantage of a handy device –Waiting is dead

“Found time” = micromoments in which

things get done

Horizon Report Short List 2013

Flipped classroom

Source: http://theactiveclass.com/2011/04/29/flipping-your-classroom/

Source: Sloan Consortium, 2012 Survey of Online Learning

Dig beneath the statistics

Mobile Apps

Apps that call a ride for you

Apps that measures your mood

LearnerAnalytics

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/08/25/what-are-learning-analytics/

Social Reading

Gamification

Tablet Computing

• 36% of US population owns a tablet in 2013

• Up 177% over last year

• In 2012, 25% of students owned a tablet

• 7 in 10 high school seniors believe tablets will replace textbooks within 5 yrs

Source: Deloitte’s 2013 State of the Media and Democracy Survey Source: http://goo.gl/uO25g, March 14, 2012

http://goo.gl/uO25g

Smartphone and Tablet Shipments Exceed PCs in Q4 10

Smartphone + Tablet Installed Base Should Exceed PC Installed Base in 2013

iPad = 48% of American Kids want one for Christmas while 36% want a mini

A little further down the road…

Emotional Avatars

“Zoe”

“Carla”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mWUdBEF5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mWUdBEF5o

Google Glass

Faster than gravity

Snapping a picture on the Charlie Rose show mid-interview

What are our faculty doing?

Faculty are capturing their lectures

Faculty are capturing their lectures…even outside the

classroom!

Faculty are flipping the classroom

Faculty are adopting eTexts

http://youtu.be/jIQ4uJKGWCE

http://youtu.be/jIQ4uJKGWCE

Faculty are creating born digital textbooks

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Faculty are creating born digital courses

Textbook replacement

Internet resources

CSUN resources (Moodle, lecture capture)

Discipline-specific apps

Clicker

Digital whiteboard

Lecture capture

PDF reader and annotater

Screensharing and collaboration

Mobile data entry

Multimedia creation

Drawing and taking notes

Faculty are adopting tablets

Faculty are teaching with tablets in journalism

Faculty are teaching with tablets in the sciences

Faculty are teaching students how to edit video on devices

Faculty are using avatars to teach

(each avatar has their own personality)

Faculty are encouraging student-generated content in class

Faculty are creating animations

http://youtu.be/XJGLljP8QJg

Faculty are creating multimedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDPsZPKSEFg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDPsZPKSEFg

What can we conclude?

Conclusions

• Technology is changing the way we work, play, learn

• Students are asking for multimedia and mobility

• Advantages of hyperconnectivitiy outweigh drawbacks

• New role for higher education – teach digital literacy

• Average person can produce, not just consume!

• Transformation has just begun….

Experts abound with predictions and explanations

“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” (Clay Shirky, keynote address at Web2.0 Expo, September 16-19, 2001)

“The smartest person in the room is the room itself” (David Weinberger, Too Big to Know, 2012, Basic Books, p. xiii)

“…attention, participation, collaboration, the critical consumption of information (aka “crap detection”), and network smarts.” (Howard Reingold, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, MIT Press,

2012, p. 5)

The “Gutenberg Parenthesis”

2,0001,400

“containment”

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