GENERATION ON A
TIGHTROPE
Book Revisited
Educating Students for a Life in a
Digital Society
Higher Education
• Teaching, process of education,
exposing students to instruction for
specific lengths of time.
Digital Natives
• Concerned with outcomes, learning
and the mastery of content in the
manner of games.
• Gatherers - wade through a sea of data
• Faculty Members: Hunters - search for
and generate knowledge to answer
questions; depth of knowledge.
available to them online to find
answers; breadth of knowledge.
• Oriented towards group learning and
social networking.
• Focused on the individual.
• Collaboration and sharing of content.
• Provider driven in belief and practice.
• Consumer driven.
Educating Students for Life in a
Digital Society
• Colleges and universities are not prepared to do this now because they are
so far behind in this area.
• Prepare them not to simply be users of technology, but literate in the use
of technology, information and media.
• Divergence between higher education and digital natives on the goals of
education.
• For-profit and non-traditional educators have been more successful in
offering programs better geared to digital natives.
Educating Students for Life in a
Digital Society
• Brick institution: campus life, face-to-face interaction between members
of the community.
• Technology enriches and supplements instruction, expanding services and
resources.
• Click institution: university that offers instruction and services largely
online.
• Technology: primary means of instruction.
• Brick and Click: combining both.
• Most crowded space: balance between the two.
SKILL SEEKER FEEDBACK
ABOUT
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Observations from the Classroom
• Career Center team reports - after presenting the Become a Skill
Seeker Orientation sessions - both Summer ‘12 and ’13:
“Students don’t see themselves as technically skilled .”
WHY?
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They are digital natives and take their use of tech for granted (ex: MS Office)
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Some said they have been coding and writing apps and webpages
throughout high school.
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A few stated they only had access to tech at school
USING TECHNOLOGY TO REACH
STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ONLINE
& DISTANCE-ED COURSES
Keep in Mind:
1. Enrollment in online and distance-ed courses is
INCREASING
2. Must reach
3. Must be
ALL our students
ACCESSIBLE
DRC Orientation Modules (11)
• What was happening in DRC
• How DRC responded
• Introductory Module #1
SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION
Mixed Groups
Division of Student Affairs
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Abrons Student Health Center
Assessment Research and Planning
Campus Life
Campus Life Arts & Programs
Campus Activities and Involvement
Campus Recreation
CARE (Collaboration for Assault
Response & Education)
Career Center
Counseling Center
CROSSROADS
Office of Dean of Students
Disability Resource Center
Health Promotion
Housing and Residence Life
Student Leadership & Engagement
Student Media
Transition Programs
University Learning Center
University Testing Services
Reflections:
• Which services can be
accessed by Distance
Education students?
• How can they be accessed?
• Which services cannot be
accessed by Distance
Education students?
• Can the department make
changes to accommodate DE
students?
• What could those changes look
like?
• If changes cannot be made,
what other accommodations can
be made?