Session 1204 The kids are alright, or are they?
Jenn Horwath and Cynthia Williamson, both from Mohawk College. They worried about information technology skills of their students. The big names (Abram, Prensky, Oblinger, Sweeny) keep toting that these Millennials know it all, they are tech savvy, brighter, smarter, faster etc. The speakers questioned where this information was coming from. What background research was being consulted? This led them to not only running a lit review but conducting a survey of their students at Mohawk College to test some theories. The results showed, for the most part, that we take it for granted how really tech savvy these students are. While many of these students are aware of many of the fancy, shinny, tech things out there it doesn’t mean that they are using them.
For more detailed information about their study go to their blogg.
http://kidsarealright.wordpress.com