Understanding the Digital Generation

Our students were born with a mouse in their hands.
The pervasive nature of digital culture has altered the way
they think, and the way they learn. Education today is
completely out of sync with this new reality.

Understanding the Digital Generation: The New Connections

This presentation provides a comprehensive profile of 10 core learning attributes of digital learners, and looks at the modern workplace and examines the new entry skills students will need to be successful in the digitally infused working environment. We examine how the world of work has changed, and how it's likely to change in the future. What are the new thinking skills workers will require, and how must we shift instruction to ensure we are equipping our students with these skills? The New Connections provides a pragmatic look at how we can teach effectively in an age when new technologies cascade onto the new digital landscape at an astonishing rate, and also identifies the principles and processes that transcend these new technologies. This session is based on the books Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape, and The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools in Small Bytes, from the 21st Century Fluency Project.

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Understanding the Digital Generation: Strategies That Work

Because of digital bombardment and the emergence of the new digital landscape, today's youth process information, interact, and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generation before them. Meanwhile many of us, having grown up in a relatively low-tech, stable, and predictable world, are constantly struggling with the speed of change, technological innovation, and the freedom to access the overwhelming sea of information online—all defining characteristics of the digital world of both today, and the swiftly-approaching future. Strategies That Work provides a comprehensive profile of several core learning attributes of digital learners, and the core teaching, learning, and assessment strategies that can be used to appeal to their digital lifestyle and learning preferences. You'll gain a clear understanding of various research-based strategies to optimize learning for the digital generation in the new digital landscape. This session is based on the books Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape, and The Digital Diet: Today's Digital Tools in Small Bytes, from the 21st Century Fluency Project.

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