Transformation in
Education
Dennis Spisak
Education Expert
(gCarlson Inc.)
dspisak@gcarlson-inc.com
Our Changing World
• We have been influenced by:
– Technology
– Generation Gaps
– Cultural Influences
– Social Influences
– Global Influences
IT’S A DIFFERENT WORLD
YET………………
• The educational model used today was
designed for the Industrial Age.
– Revolves around the instructor.
– One-size-fits-all model.
– One way lecture.
• The student, working alone, is expected to
absorb the delivered information.
THIS IS NOT THE STUDENT OF THE
NET GENERATION.
Paradox
The current generation is seeing students going to
college in unprecedented numbers.
YET
The United States is experiencing a massive
dropout problem, both in high school and
college.
MODEL FOR THE NET
GENERATION
Old
Teacher focused
One-way
One size fits all
Student Isolated
New
Student focused
Multi-way
Customized
Collaborative
1997
2009
The Medium is the
Message
• 2006 Study of Net Geners:
– Researchers played the same news message four different
ways:
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Traditional Radio Newscast.
Online newscast played with one click.
Interactive Webcast where they click to get to each news item.
Webcast where they clicked for each news item.
– Net Geners remembered less from traditional newscast
which started from beginning to end than they did from
interactive.
For Effective Learning, We
Must Move……………
From Broadcast
to
Interactive Learning
Boomers vs. Net Geners
• Boomers go from beginning to end.
– TV shows
– Writing essays
– Reading directions
• Net Geners don’t operate in a sequential
way.
– Using keywords in Google, hypertext
– Clicking, cutting and pasting
– New video game—jump right in. Read directions only
if problems develop.
Boomers vs. Net Geners cont.
• Boomers and Net Geners see things differently.
– Looking at a computer screen, the boomer reads from left
to right, top to bottom.
– Net Geners will look at the image on the screen, to the call
out box, then look at the text to confirm their initial
assumptions on the web page.
– Net Geners grew up learning how to read images, pictures,
graphs, icons.
– Studies show they learn better from visual images vs. pure
text-based.
The Gap…How Net Geners Think vs.
How Most Teachers Teach
• They want a choice in their education—in terms of
what they learn, when they learn it, where, and
how.
• They expect to talk back, to have a conversation.
• They want their education to be relevant to the real
world, the one they live in.
• They want it to be interesting and fun.
Utilizing Digital Assets for
Learning
Assigned Reading
(Primarily Textbook)
Lecture Content
Required Course Content
Student Study and Mastery
Memorizing
Flash Cards
Drag & Drop,
etc.
Mastering
Activities
Quizzing
Multiple Choice
Interactive
Exercises
Practice
Test
Multiple Choice
High Stakes
Tests
Mid-Terms &
Final
Multiple
Choice
Slide content courtesy of Ed Stanford
PRINT MATERIALS
• CONNECTING content to work
and real life situations.
• Relevant
• Reinforcement of basic skills
From the perspective of . . .
A New Employee… How might
placing labels on others’ personality
personalities at your new place of
work help or harm your chances of
making smart decisions? What
aspects of your own personality
would you like to showcase at your
place of employment?
From the Perspective of……
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Health Care Worker
Office Worker
Software Designer
Graphic Designer
Medical Assistant
Dental Assistant
Computer Game
Designer
• Law Enforcement
Officer
• Veterinary Assistant
• Criminal Justice
Professional
• New Supervisor
• Marketing Specialist
• Advertising Assistant
• Child Care Provider
• Fashion Design
Professional
the case of . . .
jean sweetland, the woman
with too many hats.
Jean Sweetland never expected that she would one day have so many
different hats to wear. But now, in her early forties, when Jean comes
home from her full-time job as a nurse and takes off her nurse’s cap, it
seems as though her day has barely started.
With two teenage children living at home, Jean next must put on her
mother’s hat and enforce household rules, dispense advice, help with
homework, or just provide a shoulder to cry on. Before her husband
comes home from his own job, Jean has to pop on her chef’s hat and get
dinner started; the maid’s cap will come out later, when Jean does the
family’s laundry and cleans the bathrooms. As if all this weren’t enough,
the responsibility has fallen to Jean for looking after her aging mother as
well. Two or three evenings a week Jean slips on her daughter’s hat and
makes the trip across town to her mother’s house, where she spends an
hour or so paying bills, restocking the cupboards, and helping with other
household chores.
THE STORY……..
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Jane is in her early 40’s.
Works as a nurse.
Comes home and takes off her NURSE hat.
Puts on her MOTHER hat to take care of her two
teenage children.
• Pops on her CHEF hat to make dinner, then..
• Puts on her MAID hat to do laundry, dishes, etc.
• Three nights a week she puts on her DAUGHTER
hat to take care of her aging mother.
Basic Skills Emphasis
study alert
Be sure to be able to distinguish the three
different types of developmental research—
cross-sectional (comparing people of
different ages at the same time); longitudinal
(studying participants as they age); and
sequential
(a combination of crosssectional and
longitudinal).
The Pacific Institute
and
McGraw-Hill
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