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    Engagement is key to learning even as education moves to the next generation. Students today have spent over 10,000 hours playing video games and using social media, compared to around 20,000 hours watching television. They expect to create, consume, and share content digitally. To bridge the gap between traditional education and what students need, teachers must create an environment where students feel a sense of belonging. Lessons should incorporate different types of experiences and motivations to make learning meaningful.

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    Engagement is key to learning even as education moves to the next generation. Students today have spent over 10,000 hours playing video games and using social media, compared to around 20,000 hours watching television. They expect to create, consume, and share content digitally. To bridge the gap between traditional education and what students need, teachers must create an environment where students feel a sense of belonging. Lessons should incorporate different types of experiences and motivations to make learning meaningful.

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    8842A Video On Engaged Learning

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    Engagement is key to learning even as education moves to the next generation. Students today have spent over 10,000 hours playing video games and using social media, compared to around 20,000 hours watching television. They expect to create, consume, and share content digitally. To bridge the gap between traditional education and what students need, teachers must create an environment where students feel a sense of belonging. Lessons should incorporate different types of experiences and motivations to make learning meaningful.

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    LEARNER ENGAGEMENT by Tammy Haggerty

    Even as we enter
    the next generation of
    learning,
    ENGAGEMENT is the key
    ...
    The average student entering
    college
    Will have
    Teens spent
    typically spend
    Over 10,000 hours

    Playing video games


    Talking and texting on
    cell phones

    Interactive videogames, Mediascope Prensky, M. (2001) Digital Natives


    Approximately 20,000 hours
    watching T.V.
    And use a screen media
    over
    2 ½ hours….
    DAILY
    Students today were raised “in
    a digital world where they
    expect to be able to create,
    consume, remix, and share
    material with each other”.

    Lee Rainie, Pew American and Internet Life Project


    How then do we bridge the
    gap between

    what we have always done and what we should be doing? …


    Engagement
    Differences in Passive/Active
    Engagement
    Passive Engagement
    Ipods, Texting, or Cell
    Phones
    Possibly the
    delivery of the
    content can be
    more engaging
    than the content
    itself. But
    whatever works,
    use it.
    Active Engagement involves Environment, Experience,
    Motivation and MEANING.
    Environment

    Do students feel a sense of humor and belonging in


    your classroom?
    Experience

    Gardner, H. (2000). Multiple Intelligences


    Motivation

    Mystery is a
    great
    engaging
    tool.

    Some
    aspects of
    virtual
    gaming
    develop
    higher order
    Malone, T. (1980). What makes things fun to learn? A study of intrinsically motivatingprocessing
    computer games.
    (Report CIS-7). Palo Altao, CA: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
    Meaning

    72% of high school graduates


    believe their coursework was
    NOT meaningful.
    Only 3.5% of public high school
    students can pass the US
    citizenship test.
    National Center for Education Statistics and The Goldwater
    Institute
    What matters…
    Image courtesy of Macintosh
    http://www.vachild.com/ballston-02.18.05-044w.jpg
    Photo courtesy of U.S. Army usarmy.gov
    Students today were raised “in a digital world where they expect to
    be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each
    other”.
    --Lee Rainie, Pew American and Internet Life Project
    What does this mean for
    education?
    We must use every tool at our
    dispense to achieve meaningful
    learning
    We must use every chance
    available to expose students to
    But mostopportunities
    learning important….
    We must use them every day to
    keep up with student ascension.

    Siemens, G. (2008, January). Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators and designers. ITForum.

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