Educating the Net Generation

Educating the Net Generation

1. Children and Teenagers

   • Today’s Net Gen college students have grown up with technology.
   • When high school students were asked why technology is essential to their education, responses included:
     • It’s part of our world.
     • Some students at my school who weren’t great students are better ones now thanks to computers.

2. Collage Students

   • individuals who:
     • Believe it’s cool to be smart
     • Are fascinated by new technologies
     • Ability to read visual images
     • Visual-spatial skills
     • Inductive discovery
     • Attentional deployment
     • Fast response time

3. Things changed by network:

   • Digital Literate
   • Connected
   • Immediate
   • Experiental
   • Social
   • Structure
   • Experience
   • Visual and Kinesthetic
   • Teams
   • Community activities

4. NonTraditional Learners

   • The more nontraditional characteristics students possess, the less likely they are to persist in college after the first year or to graduate.
   • The motivation for going to college is often different for adult learners compared to the Net Gen

5. Product of the Environment

   • Our experiences and the environment around us shape how we think, behave, and act.
     • One of the most striking attributes is the attitude toward the Internet. For the Net Gen, the Internet is like oxygen; they can’t imagine being able to live without it.

6. Implications

   • It’s Not About Technology
   • Communities and Social Networks
   • First-Person Learning
   • Interaction
   • Immediacy
   • Multiple Media Literacy