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A New Perspective on
Motivating Today’s Students
Paul Grainger
ELT Product Specialist
CENGAGE Learning
23 July 2011
VUS TESOL
Paul Grainger
Senior ELT Product Specialist
Cengage
Learning
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Teaching and Learning
Discussion
What are the differences between today’s
teenagers, and teenagers from 10+ years ago?
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Video Clip
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
What is the most interesting thing you learnt from this
video clip?
Video:
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
In class, I want to:
1. be engaged___
2. think________
3. create_______
4. analyze______
5. evaluate_____
6. apply_______
7. share info____
8. learn by doing
9. use technology
Students Today
• more creative
• more visual
• more technology literate
• more independent
• more ______________
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The Key to Learning
Q: Why is it becoming so difficult to teach
students these days?
A: Because…
Mark Prensky
2001 – Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Examples of the ‘digital immigrant accent’
• Turning to the Internet for information second rather
than first
• Reading the instructions for a new mobile phone
• Printing out your email
• Asking someone else to print it out for you!
• Bringing someone physically to see an interesting
website, instead of send them the URL
• Phoning someone to check if they got your e-mail
Time allocation for digital natives
Order these activities in terms of average
number of hours spent per week ( 1 = most,
4 = least )
•Talking on the phone
•Playing video games
•Watching TV
•Reading books
How do digital natives feel towards
digital immigrants?
How do digital natives feel towards
digital immigrants?
How do digital natives feel at school?
How do digital natives feel at school?
Key Message
“Our students have changed radically. Today’s
students are no longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach.”
“Today’ students think and process information
fundamentally differently from previous
generations.”
Key Message
“Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners
are the same as they have always been, and that
the same methods that worked for the teachers
when they were students will work for their
students now. But that assumption is no longer
valid.
The Key to Learning
Q: Why is it becoming so difficult to teach
students these days?
A: Because today’s students think and
process information differently.
Teaching & Learning styles
1. In a 45 minute class, how much time do YOU spend
talking?
2. On average, how many activities do you have in one
class?
3. How often do you use pictures in class?
4. How often do you ask students to do pair / groupwork in
one class?
5. How often do you get angry when students make
mistakes?
6. What do you do more – praise or blame students?
7. How often does the average student ask a question in
class?
8. Are your lessons fun?
Characteristics of games
1. Learn by playing
2. Fast
3. Strong graphics
4. Interactive
5. Fun!
6. Sense of progress
7. Frequent rewards
8. Learn from mistakes
9. Collaborative
10. Multi-tasking
Learning Styles
Digital Natives
Learn by doing
Fast
Graphic before text
Interactive
Fun
Sense of progress
Frequent rewards
Learn from mistakes
Collaborative
Multi-tasking
Digital Immigrants
Learn by rote
Slow
Text before graphic
One way / lecture -style
Boring
Sense of failure
Punishments over rewards
Avoid mistakes at all costs!
Individual
One thing at a time
French class
- How NOT to teach to Digital Natives
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A Vision of K-12 Students Today
In class, I want to:
1. be engaged___
2. think________
3. create_______
4. analyze______
5. evaluate_____
6. apply_______
7. share info____
8. learn by doing
9. use technology
Multi-modal Learning
What is it?
Five themes
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Incredible Animals
Fascinating Places
Remarkable People
Exciting Activities
Amazing Science
“You don’t understand anything until you
learn it more than one way.”
Marvin Minsky
Technology Tools
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Audio CDs
Online readers
DVDs ( in class )
Presentation Tool
CD-ROMs
Test-generators
DVD
Discuss with your partner ( 2 mins ):
• Do you use video clips for teaching? ( If no, why not? If yes, why? )
• What challenges / problems are there for using video clips in class?
ACTIVITY:
Watch the clip from ‘Monkey Party’ and find solutions
for the challenges we have brainstormed.
DVD - Solutions
• Adapted voice over – simplifying from original
• Short ( 2-4 mins )
• Recycle language from unit
• Related to topic of unit
• Globally appropriate content
• Exciting, high quality clips from National Geographic!
• Student book with pre, while & post viewing activities
DVD Worksheet ( TB )
Technology Tools
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Audio CDs
Online readers
DVDs ( in class )
Presentation Tool
CD-ROMs
Test-generators
Technology Tools
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Audio CDs
Online readers
DVDs ( in class )
Presentation Tool
CD-ROMs
Test-generators
What should we do?
Should the Digital Native students learn
the old ways, or should their Digital
Immigrant educators learn the new?
it is highly unlikely the Digital Natives will go backwards
“If a child can’t learn the way we
teach, maybe we should teach
the way they learn.”
Ignacio Estrada
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Oh no!
Does that mean I have
to completely change
the way I teach?
• Cultural literacy
• Critical thinking skills
• Cross-curricular content
• Visual literacy
• Multi-modal skills
Meet students halfway!
Older techniques + newer techniques
Balance of old & new
Old
• Vocabulary
• Dialogues
• Grammar
• Speaking
• Pronunciation
• Writing
• Reading
New
• Stunning pictures
• Projects
• DVD
• Fast finishers
• Study Skills
• Culture
• Cross-curricular
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Student site
Can you remember?
1. What is a digital native?
2. What is a digital immigrant?
3. What is the best way to teach today’s students?
4. What is 1 thing that YOU will change about your
teaching to suit the style of digital natives?
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply;
Willing is not enough, we must do”
Lee Jun Fan ‘Bruce Lee’ (1940-1973)
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Questions?
Contact us:
[email protected]
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