2019 SWIC High Impact Practices in Online and Blended Classrooms & Generation Z

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Who is Generation Z
- Born between 1995 - 2012
- Entered college between 2013-14 and today
- Beloit College's Annual List of Incoming Freshmen (Class of 2020)Characteristics

Gen Z: The Phigital Student
Universities don't meet the expectations of Gen Z Students
- One-third of students feel student administration systems do not meet their expectations.
- Study found that 7 in 10 students would recommend that their universities review and change its digital strategy.
- 49% of students reported taking fewer courses per semester and 45% reported not registering for a course because of the high cost of textbooks.
- 64% of students opted out of buying textbooks for the first day of class
- Students are choosing not to study business and computer science because of the cost of textbooks.

Gen Z students tend to thrive when they are given the opportunity to have a fully immersive educational experience and they even enjoy the challenges of being a part of it.

51% of surveyed students said they learn best by doing while only 12% said they learn through listening.

"Kids today have grown up with technology. They're looking for experiences that use tech purposefully, not frivolously," Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow (emphasis added - https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2018/08/generation_z_prefers_learning_from_youtube.html)

Teaching 21st Century Teaching Skills Needed to Help Students Build a Career…

What skills do faculty need to teach content for today's students?

Become a Learning Guide
Embrace Technology
Encourage Educational Freedom
Teach Risk-Taking
Understand Speed of Access Matters

What skills do students need to learn to become robot-proof in the job market?

Technical skills
Conceptual skills
Interpersonal skills
Entrepreneurial and Innovation skills
Information Literacy
Humanistic Literacy

35% of Millenials

More than 1/3 of Gen Z students own or plan to own their own business.

(Fong, 2018)

Ray Schroeder: Teaching 21st Century Skills Needed to Help Students Build a Career for Tomorrow…

AI for People in a Hurry

Raj Ramesh

There is so much discussion and #confusion about AI nowadays. People talk about deep learning and computer vision without context. In this short video, we get the context to begin thinking about AI.

https://youtu.be/2ePf9rue1Ao

5 things I’m telling my kids to prepare them for the future

BY STEPHANE KASRIEL, FastCompany

YOU’LL BE IN SCHOOL THE REST OF YOUR LIVES

Why? Because skills are changing faster than traditional education is keeping up. There are a few reasons for this. After all, per Moore’s law, technological progress grows exponentially, creating smarter and smarter machines, which require newer and newer skills. Plus, in an era of fast-paced technological and scientific breakthroughs, the more we discover, the more we have to learn new skills. And while some leading universities now offer courses on the gig economy or new technologies like the blockchain, it’s far from being the norm. The vast majority of high schools and colleges aren’t adapting quickly enough to the change, leaving their students increasingly unprepared for the jobs market.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90247298/5-things-im-telling-my-kids-to-prepare-them-for-the-future

New LinkedIn Data Reveals the 10 U.S. Jobs With the Largest Growth Rate

By Michael Schneider, Inc

Especially in today's world, where robots are doing the majority of the résumé screening, you have to pass predictive analytics assessments, and (owing to ease of accessibility) there's an average of 250 applications per corporate job opening. In a LinkedIn Emerging Jobs Report released in early December, new data revealed the 10 jobs with the highest demand and most significant growth in hiring rates, making them conceivably more stable career choices and more attainable. Although the job market is vast and continuously evolving, aligning your education and experiences with these 10 jobs is a good strategy if you're looking to snag a new job quickly.

https://www.inc.com/michael-schneider/new-linkedin-data-reveals-10-us-jobs-with-largest-growth-rate.html

AI won’t wipe out entire job categories in most cases; it will eliminate tasks

by Sarah K. White, CIO

The Department of Labor created a dataset called ONET, which includes the descriptions for 964 occupations in the US. Each job has a list that includes around 20 to 32 tasks, with a total of over 18,000 tasks that exist in the economy. Brynjolfsson’s team took this data set and evaluated each skillset to determine which tasks could be done better by AI, and which were performed better by humans. The team found that for plenty of jobs there were always tasks that AI could do better than humans, but there were still plenty of tasks that humans excelled at over AI and machine learning.

https://www.cio.com/article/3285705/artificial-intelligence/ais-impact-on-the-future-of-work.html

It’s time to prepare the workforce of the future

BY VICTORIA A. ESPINEL, the Hill

The software industry talks a lot about the software skills gap and the need for more coders. That’s because it’s a real concern – the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates there will 1.4 million open computing jobs by 2020, but only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to fill them. Industry and government should work together to encourage more people to consider jobs in software development, computer programming and cybersecurity. But the skills gap is much bigger than the Bureau’s 1.4 million estimate. We don’t just need computer science graduates to fill computing jobs; we need people with technical abilities to fill jobs in almost every industry.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/386546-its-time-to-prepare-the-workforce-of-the-future

Dell Technologies

Gen Z is here. Are you ready? They are tech-savvy, digital natives to the core and they’re joining your workforce. They bring new skills, high expectations and a desire to shake things up. See this large scale study by Dell.

https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/perspectives/gen-z.htm

The 60 Year Curriculum: Developing New Educational Models to Serve the Agile Labor Market

by Chris Dede, Harvard University

The average lifespan of the next generation is projected to be 80 to 90 years, and most people will need to work past the age of 65 to have enough savings to retire.[1] Teenagers need to prepare for a future of multiple careers spanning six decades, plus retirement. Educators are faced with the challenge of preparing young people for unceasing reinvention to take on many roles in the workplace, as well as for careers that do not yet exist.

https://evolllution.com/revenue-streams/professional_development/the-60-year-curriculum-developing-new-educational-models-to-serve-the-agile-labor-market/

Interactive (fun) tool (Will Robots Take My Job?)

https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/

Michio Kaku and Tracey Wylen on Jobs of the Future

Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. This co-founder of String Field Theory, joined Dr. Tracey Wylen is a researcher and speaker on the impact of technology on society, work, and careers for a recent edition of his YouTube series. A former visiting scholar at Stanford University Wylen has held leadership positions at Apple, HP, Cisco Systems and the Apollo Group. In this half-hour program, they address Jobs of the Future for college students.

Ray's upcoming lecture - UNT Discovery Series (http://ci.unt.edu/discovery-series)

https://sites.google.com/site/untdiscovery/

Teaching Strategies for Gen Z?

Think Digital in all assignments, assessments, activities
Break content into short segments
Make information graphical and bite size
Rethink how you communicate
Be relevant. Respect the time of the Gen Z student
Provide individualized instruction - think adaptive learning
Use Social Media approaches to learning
Set up students for a career
Provide access to resources to help eliminate student loan debt
Acknowledge that this generation sees themselves as Smart, Creative, and Hardworking