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Holding The
Attention of
Those Millennial
Digital Natives
Jill Robbins & Anup Mahajan
National Capital Language Resource
Center
Who are the
millennials?
Also known as Generation Y, Echo/New
Boomers, MTV Generation
Term Millennials coined by Howe & Strauss
(2000)
Born between (approximately) 1981-2000
Current age: 9 to 28
Have always known computers, Internet,
mobile phones
Characteristics of
Millenials
“..their online life is a whole lot bigger than
just the Internet. This online life has
become an entire strategy for how to live,
survive and thrive in the 21st century,
where cyberspace is a part of
everyday life.” (Prensky, 2004: 2)
For this reason, Millennials in are referred
to as Digital Natives
Digital Natives in the
Classroom
Our students are no longer “little versions
of us,” as they may have been in the past.
In fact, they are so different from us that
we can no longer use either our 20th
century knowledge or our training as a
guide to what is best for them
educationally (Prensky, 2007, p. 2).
If you lecture to them they tune out (or
start texting under the desk)
Educational Impact
How Digital
Language-Learning Functions Facilitated
Natives Access
Communication
Resources
Socializing
Evaluation
From Helen Mongan-Rallis
Searching
The New Teaching
Paradigm
Teachers need to allow & encourage
students to use technology to teach
themselves
Students need to share the resources they
know how to access with teachers & peers
Digital
Blogs, rss
feeds,
email,
Communication
webcasts,
wikis, nings,
polls,
Moodles,
Skype,
iTunesU,
Student
response
systems
(clickers),
Digital Socializing
Global Exchanges (Intercultural Email, clas
exchanges)
Online Language
Practice
Skype (Mixxer)
NCLRC’s
Tech for Teachers:
Resources
Tutorials,
Resources &
Articles; Blogs
For Students:
Webcasts; Teen
Interview Podcasts,
YouTube Channel
Evaluation - SelfAssessment
Portfolio Assessment:
NCLRC’s Portfolio
Assessment Guide
LinguaFolio: Student portfolio
Teacher training on
Linguafolio
How do you
empower your
student’s digital
skills?
Ways Students Access
Resources
Searching
Collecting
Sharing
Success Stories
High school: Moodle,Ning (for blogging)
College/HS: Facebook (for students &
parents), Moodle for internet classes/online
instruction
Middle school: Quia.com (homework,
games for vocab, tracking, quizzes, audio
& visual clips), PBWiki
Other: Voicethread,Audacity, resources
from CLEAR
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