Statistics and the (Post)-Millennium Student

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Abstract

<p> Students today are very di&fflig;erent from when we, their professors and instructors were students. They Facebook, Google, text and Tweet (unfortunately, sometimes during class). Interaction with others has been boiled down to &ldquo;soundbites&rdquo; of 140 characters or less. They grew up with video games and SpongeBob (recently shown to be detrimental to attention and higher order intellect). We believe they are &ldquo;tech savvy,&rdquo; but this is often not the case. We understand that GAISE encourages us to use real data in teaching, but are the examples we select interesting and attention-grabbing to them? How can we overcome these problems? We, their instructors are most likely programmed to teach in the same manner we were taught: a lecture followed by homework, quiz, etc. One possibility is to reorganize our teaching into smaller &ldquo;bites.&rdquo; Another is to take advantage of social media. I&rsquo;ll discuss strategies I&rsquo;ve used: their pluses and minuses as well.</p>
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jan 7 2012
EventJoint Mathematical Meetings -
Duration: Jan 7 2012 → …

Conference

ConferenceJoint Mathematical Meetings
Period01/7/12 → …

Disciplines

  • Mathematics

Keywords

  • Post-millennium student
  • Technology

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