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Engaging Millennials

Dwayne Harapnuik —  October 17, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1188/the-millennials-are-coming-proven-engagement-strategies

The Millennials Are Coming! Proven Engagement Strategies by Elisabeth Arellano : Learning Solutions Magazine via kwout

An interview with Nate Chai, senior director of Design Consulting at Allen Communication, a firm that specializes in training & design, curriculum development and learning technologies reveals that it you wish to engage millennials your instructional focus must take into account their learning preferences. Millennials were born between 1981 and 1999, are the largest, most educated, and most diverse generation since the Baby Boomers. Chai suggest that the instructional focus that will benefit and engage millennials the best will also benefit all learners. The instructional focus should include:

  • Mobile Learning – the problem of information has been solved with all the time everywhere access.
  • Gamification – this isn’t just about having fun this is really about scenarios, solutions and problem solving in a collaborative environment.
  • Video-based Learning – videos offer immediate and just in time solutions to many problems.
Despite living in an always on media rich world, millennials are very pragmatic and just want to maximize their time and their work-life balance. Technology should be used to enrich and enhance the learning environment through useful and engaging activities not through gimmicks

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The World University Rankings

Dwayne Harapnuik —  October 8, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking

World University Rankings 2013-2014 – Times Higher Education via kwout

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Time Management, Not Content – Biggest Challenge to Learning

Dwayne Harapnuik —  October 8, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2013/10/07/the-biggest-lesson-from-the-flipped-classroom-may-not-be-about-math/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

The biggest lesson from the flipped classroom may not be about math – Casting Out Nines – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

I started out using the One Minute Manager approach over 30 years ago, have experimented with a wide assortment time management systems and most recently have been using David Allen’s Get Things Done (GTD) time management method, and I can still honestly say I find time management to be one of my biggest challenges. So when Robert Talbert identified time management and not Math as being the biggest challenge for his student in his flipped classroom I realized that this is just one more life skill that we are ignoring when we strive to cover the content of the curriculum.

The timing of this blog post couldn’t have been better. Over the past few years my two teen aged boys have been taking on more complicated or sophisticated projects and this fall they are finding that they need to be better organized if they are to fit everything into their days. My older son Levi commented on the challenge of working at becoming a professional downhill bike racer and an extreme athlete while trying to fit in his final year of high school studies. My younger son has always felt the pressure of large projects so we started working with them on building To Do lists, categorizing and prioritizing their school and training responsibilities. This may be one of the most important skills that they will learn.

Talbert suggests that:

a good co-requisite for any flipped class is a mini-workshop on GTD principles, to train students how to think in terms of projects, contexts, and tasks and to free their minds up to work well.

Perhaps he isn’t going far enough. Training students how to manage projects, tasks, and free up their minds to work well is fundamental to self regulated learning which is at the core of life long learning and personal growth.

Sharing the fundamentals of the GTD approach with my boys has just moved to the top of my To Do list. Shouldn’t this be on the top of all parents and educators lists?

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25 Great YouTube Channels for Blended Learning

Dwayne Harapnuik —  October 4, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/09/25-youtube-channels-for-blended-learning/

25 Great YouTube Channels for Blended Learning – Getting Smart by Guest Author – engchat, histchat, Online Learning, scichat, sschat, technology, videos, YouTube | Getting Smart via kwout

Chances are you have come across many of these channels:

Technology

Science

Nature

History

Language

Ideas

Mix Topics

Emily Lucas the author of the post 25 Great YouTube Channels for Blended Learning where I pulled this list from has fully annotated each of the links.

Source: 25 Great YouTube Channels for Blended Learning

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Adapt or Die

Dwayne Harapnuik —  September 23, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://chronicle.com/article/Take-It-From-an-Ex-Journalist-/141779/?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en

Take It From an Ex-Journalist: Adapt or Die – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

Byron P. White, vice president for university engagement and chief diversity officer at Cleveland State University a shares Déjà vu moment by comparing a University senior leadership retreat where the need for innovation and change was discussed to a similar retreat discussion he had years earlier as part of the senior management of the Chicago Tribune. The fundamental challenges that were obvious to the newspaper industry a short while ago are amazingly similar to those that higher education faces now and like the newspaper industry, higher education is not listening to the demands of the general public. The following data is just one example of the gap in thinking:

A survey of 1,000 American adults and 540 senior-level administrators released last fall by Time magazine and the Carnegie Corporation of New York bears this out. While 62 percent of the administrators included “to learn to think critically” as either the most-important or second-most-important reason people should go to college, only 26 percent of the public ranked it as such. Likewise, 80 percent of the adults said that at many colleges, the education students receive is not worth what they pay for it. Only 41 percent of the administrators agreed with them.

Even though I am a staunch supporter of a liberal education even I can see that most people view education as a preparation for jobs rather than a preparation for society. Unlike White who is optimistic and posits that higher education does have the appetite for change I subscribe to Clayton Christensen’s way thinking and suggest that it will take a significant disruption to higher education before we start to see the changes that so many know are necessary.

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