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New Approaches of Teaching ICT to Meet Educational
Needs of Net Students Generation
Nataliya Kushnir1, Anna Manzhula1 and Nataliya Valko1
1
Kherson State University, 27, 40 rokiv Zhovtnya St., 73000 Kherson, Ukraine
kushnir@ksu.ks.ua ilovetrees@mail.ru valko@ksu.ks.ua
Abstract. The paper describes the educational needs of modern students as
generation Net representatives, highlights the contradiction between their char-
acteristics and traditional ways of teaching ICT disciplines. The paper reports
teaching experience and poll results for three years at Kherson State University,
Ukraine. The purpose of the paper is to offer new teaching approaches to cope
with a generation gap and way to improve the quality of ICT teaching.
Keywords. Generation gap, Generation Net, teaching approaches, ICT disci-
pline
Key terms. ICTTool, TeachingPattern, TeachingMethodology, Capability
1 Introduction
The UNESCO report on Information Technology in Education [1] informs that
Ukraine is on the way of "the rapid advancement (progress) of ICT in education that
leads to the constant updating of the educational content and the quality of ICT train-
ing". However, there is a great amount of problems. Primary it is connected with the
fact that educational institutions and teachers in particular are not ready to the transi-
tion to the information society: “increased demands for flexibility, mobility and
adaptability to the education management system, educational institutions and teach-
ers in the context of rapid changes make it difficult to maintain and improve the qual-
ity of educational services."
2 Related Work
Using our teaching experience we identified the common trend of learning styles
among the students. Further research is required to investigate digital competence
formation among future teachers. Our attempt to find out an unknown factor that has a
significant impact on the pedagogical process and to understand the nature of this
phenomenon was based on the considering modern students as the representatives of
the new generation.
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To date, about 40 books and scores of articles and papers have been written on this
generation that report the results of international surveys and other research and de-
scribe their characteristics. Their impact on education at all levels has been of major
interest to researchers and educators. There are about 10 terms to describe the current
generation of students [2]: Millennials (Howe and Strauss), Generation Y or Gen Y
(Nader), Echo Boomers (Tapscott), Net Generation (Tapscott), Digital Aboriginals
(Tarlow and Tarlow), Digital Natives (Prensky), Nexters (Raines and Filipczak), Dot
Com Generation (Stein and Craig).
The representatives of this generation were born in 1982-2003. Today’s students
and post-graduates are aged from 10 to 30. It means that all teachers and institutions
that are involved in the education of the students who have grown up in the world of
new digital, mobile and high-tech, digital technologies.
The technology itself has had a profound effect on this new generation, unlike on
any previous one. In the classroom, students can chat on Skype or write SMS to their
friends, take notes on ipad, surf the Internet and read a book on the ReadBook. This
behavior can not be fully appreciated by their teachers: it’s considered that electronic
instruments and digital devices distract students from the "real" study [2]. Majority of
today’s teachers are representatives of the previous generations. They are using learn-
ing models fitted for the teachers themselves but not for the new generation of stu-
dents.
It was found that representatives of the new generation inherent a wide range of
characteristics that are defined a predisposition for becoming a successful educator.
Realizing their significance for the education and considering themselves to be an
instrument of world changes, they will be strongly motivated to improve the quality
of life of the society. Some research study and develop strategies for a retention them
in definite professional sphere including education.
Moreover, the representatives of Net generation have solid moral values connected
with a family and our society. They are highly motivated to create an open and toler-
ant society. It’s important for new gens’ educators to consolidate and maintain
youths’ system of values. [15].
The results of the 3rd year students’ polling showed the low level of professional
awareness (Preschool and Elementary School faculty). Only 50% of students have an
intention to become teachers [16]. The lack of professional focus among students sets
a hard task for educators to make teaching a valuable and desired profession.
Among the characteristics of generation should be noted that Gen Y workers are
usually educationally focused and attribute their success to their educational capabili-
ties. They want to have successful careers. They do not like the dress code, demand
ICT equipped workplaces and want have a flexible work schedule.
Ronald A. Berk synthesized pertinent research evidence based on ten national and
international surveys: EDUCAUSE [4], College Students‘ Perceptions of Libraries
and Information Resources Survey, Greenberg Millennials Study [5], Education Re-
search Institute (UCLA) [3] American Freshman Survey [11], National Center for
Education Statistics [9], Net Generation Survey [8],The Net Generation: A Strategic
Investigation [13], Nielsen Net View Audience Measurement Survey [2, 10], Pew
Internet and American Life Project [6, 7] и Technological preparedness among enter-
New Approaches of Teaching ICT to Meet Educational Needs … 197
ing freshman [12]. The research results from the surveys and aforementioned books
has yielded twenty learner characteristics typical for most Net Geners: technology
savvy, relies on search engines for information, interest in multimedia, create Internet
content, operate at ―twitch speed, learn by inductive discovery, learns by trial and
error, multitask on everything, short attention span, communicate visually, crave so-
cial face-to face interaction, emotionally open: Embrace diversity and multicultural-
ism, prefers teamwork and collaboration, strive for lifestyle fit, feels pressure to suc-
ceed, constantly seeks feedback, thrives on instant gratification, respond quickly and
expect rapid responses in return, prefers typing to handwriting. The research results
from the surveys and aforementioned books have yielded twenty learner characteris-
tics typical for the most Net Geners.
Fig. 1. Improvement discipline background
We have identified some teaching approaches that are contradictory to the contem-
porary students’ needs. This gap is especially obvious in teaching computer related
disciplines. Complete comprehensive step-by-step instructions and exclusively indi-
vidual learning are no longer efficient. This context led educators to a revision of
present teaching strategies.
3 Setting up the Pedagogical Experiment
The only discipline - “New Information Technologies and Technical Facilities of
Education” – that concerns the formation of ICT skills is taught for the future teachers
of all specialties at Kherson State University. This year the discipline was renamed in
"Information Technology" in most curricula.
The teaching experience of teaching the discipline "New Information Technologies
and Technical Facilities of Education” in 2011 (109 students) and in 2012 (112 stu-
dents) at Faculty of Pre-School and Elementary Education (FPEE) allowed us to iden-
tify problems that are mainly related to the mentioned contradictions [17].
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Table 1. The contradictions of the present ICT teaching approaches to the generation Net char-
acteristics
ICT teaching approach Generation Poll results
Net charac-
teristic
ICT teaching "from scratch": dis- Tech savvy 84% of respondents have started to use
regard (neglect) the actual level the computer for learning 7 years ago or
of the student's ICT skills. As a earlier
result, school ICT discipline as-
signments are duplicated, lab
manuals are detailed and tend to
be comprehensive.
Teaching materials are not inter- Relying on About 26% of the students classified
active and update search (attributed, mentioned, placed, noted)
engines for search engines to (as) the most fre-
information quently used sites on the Internet
Weak level of visualization of Interest in Movies and computer games have the
teaching materials, lack of inter- multimedia, second position among the purposes of
activity including hypertext "visual" using computer ranked by students
communica-
tion
Step-by-step manuals that pre- Creation of Social nets, wiki-sites and forums have
suppose learning by copying the Internet the third position among the most fre-
sample, the absence of the origi- content quently visited sites on the Internet. All
nal product as a result of the stu- of them are a platform for a creation of
dents’ work. their own content, express their opinion,
share things made by themselves. 13% of
respondents mentioned the creative ac-
tivity as a major purpose for using the
computer
Students are constrained by one Multitasks The sum of hours for different every-
plotline (storyline) in learning, on every- day life activities informed by student
the absence of immersion, prob- thing are about 28 hours a day.
lem-solving and decision-making
tasks and enough freedom for
actions in realization students’
learning trajectory.
Weakly realized person-centered Emotionaly Social nets were ranked as the second
approach open position by students
Individual fulfillment and per- Teamwork Using computer for communication
formance of learning results and coop- among students is placed on the third po-
eration sition after learning and entertainment
purposes by students
We interviewed students of Faculty of Pre-School and Elementary Education in
2012-2013 academic year. The results confirm last year statistics that quality of
teaching materials on KsuOnline was highly appreciated by students, average score
was 9.29 in 2011 and 9.16 in 2012 out of 10.
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The results of the entrance poll of other faculties in 2011-2013 academic years
showed the following trends:
In 2011, 89% of the respondents owned a computer or a laptop. This academic
year, 100% of students are the owners of a computer or a similar device regardless
of the discipline.
70% (2011), 68% (2012) and 69% (2013) students have an access to the Internet
outside of the university – thereby, this rate stays the same.
However, a number of students who recognize themselves addicted to the Internet
has grown from 24% in 2011 to 32% in 2013.
An interesting result was found by visiting University website by students from
different disciplines. 17% of the third year students said they had never visited the
university website at the departments where teachers hardly use ICT in teaching.
On the other hand the rate was 0 (since 2011 to date) at the departments where
most of the teachers regularly use ICT.
The number of students who have a positive attitude towards the use of ICT in
education (inter alia, at lectures) has increased (see Fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Students Attitude Towards the Use ICT During Lectures
The purposes of using the computer by students have almost the same rating,
regardless of year and the faculty (see Fig. 3).
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35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
To do my lessons To communicate by the To learn something new To entertain themselve I have no computer
Internet (distance learning (games, watching
courses, video tutorials, movies, etc.).
workshops, etc.)
FFP, FT, FPHS (2012‐2013) FPSEE (2012‐2013) FPSEE (2011‐2012)
Fig. 3. The Purpose for Using a Computer and Internet by Students
Social net is becoming more popular among services for communication (see Figure),
IME and email are also frequently used.
Fig. 4. Student Communication Services
Modern students overestimate their skills for online searching according to Berk.
The results of our research have confirmed this fact. The results of entrance poll and
test in Informatics are contradictory. The majority of students estimated their level of
ICT proficiency as excellent and good. The rate is depicted below.
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Fig. 5. Results of self-appraisal a computer user by students (FFP, FT FPHS, 2013)
The entrance test contains 45 comprehension questions and is designed by analogy
with ECDL test. The aim of testing is to check residual knowledge of school
computer discipline. The results showed that only 3.28% of students had a score
higher than 4.5, 82% had a score higher than 3 but less than 4,42 points, 62% had
from 2 to 3 points and 1.64% scored less than 2 points.
During the recitations, the following problems were identified that are related to
organizational issues and students attitudes:
Students have no skills to manage their time and work efficiently without strict
teacher control, regardless deadlines. Only few students uploaded their works in
time.
Not all students use email regularly. Many of them chronically forget their email
user names and passwords. Students are confused by various browsers or other
version applications. As a result, the login process to email or distance learning
system regularly takes up to 7 minutes.
There is no clear understanding of terms among students. Being able to work with
some programs, often they cannot deal with similar ones.
It is necessary for a teacher to consider different speed of students work while
planning lessons. Some students do not regularly use computers. Thus, typing,
mouse control, and searching for a command causes a delay.
Plagiarism. Some students prefer not “to waste” their time to do lessons. They
easily copy their colleagues’ results or download similar ones from the net. It is
important at the first lesson to highlight the value of students own creative work
and punish the students who attempt to copy someone else work. Under strict
control, the number of plagiarisms decreases, but does not disappear. In fact, we
notice that plagiarism is growing with task level. The reason is that the students
desire to get a mark, not knowledge.
The students do not like reading long instructions. Usually they prefer to ask a
teacher or colleagues than to read step-by-step manual. It is also associated with
different systems prevailing perception among students. The feature of the course
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is that the most of the teaching materials are stored in digital form (in digital form).
Creating e-learning course does not require additional financial costs, as opposed
to hard copy, faster and easier to edit and update. However, reading from the
screen does not give effective results. Perceived only about 40% of the
information.
Lack of collaborative activities: in pairs, groups and teams, social assessment,
problem-solving and decision-making tasks. A student presents results of an
individual work only to one person–his teacher, and feels subordinated under such
conditions. In addition, it is the reason of the absent of the critical view on his own
work. This results in frustration and dissatisfaction of the student to any criticism.
The teacher comments are perceived in a negative or indifferent way.
Educators should pay special attention to students feedback about effectiveness of
teaching activities and the level of their satisfaction. For example, monitoring and
evaluation allow a teacher to obtain an information about teaching incomes and
quality, that would improve his work. It should reflect the level the students
knowledge. It’s vice versa in practice: evaluations become a sign of knowledge /
ignorance of the material, the student rating of the group.
The presented requirements to discipline designed in previous work on digital lit-
eracy formation [17] have been adapted to Berk’s pedagogical strategies. As a result,
we have formulated new approaches considering educational needs of the Net stu-
dents’ generation (see Table 2).
Table 2. The approaches of teaching ICT discipline to meet educational needs of generation
Net students
The teaching element Requirements (Description)
Discipline content A discipline content should reflect current research and encour-
ages students to use new approaches and technologies, highlights
current trends in ICT development.
Tasks presuppose creative activity, form skills of self-learning
and further development. Examples are inspiriting.
Task execution result is useful, valuable and applicable product in
professional practice.
All elements of the discipline are focused on future professional
activities.
Students motivation All elements of the course (assignments, surveys, etc.) help
students to see themselves in their future profession, particularly
in teaching profession.
It is important to emphasize interest to the students’ opinion, to
make possible to their contribution in doing collective projects,
for example, to create a bank of teacher’s materials;
Student wants to get a feedback from his colleagues about his
work. Any result of creative task should pass following stages:
creation, publication and social assessment with definite criteria.
Student wants to evaluate teacher’s work too, so a teacher should
organize the ways to impact on the discipline development for
students, to express their wishes.
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The teaching element Requirements (Description)
Organizational issues Tasks presuppose collaboration, facilitate communication and
interaction to develop personal aspect of student and help to
realize his individuality.
Clear structure, planning, to do list and deadline system.
Active use of formative assessment techniques.
Ice-breaking, team-building and communicative exercises at the
beginning and at the end of the lesson to form communicative
skills, values, relationship.
Use no more than two new environments at the lesson.
Teacher should consider in the selection of services to work at the
lesson:
registration absence or its simplicity,
functionality
easiness,
necessity to install additional software
opportunities to use in profession.
The main aim of updating the discipline was to help future teachers to create and
organize their own learning space in the Internet. Therefore online interactive services
that can be used for communication and teaching pupils were included (creating word
clouds, mind map, open online documents, site, etc.). We also considered Berk’s
strategies while designing the discipline. The updated version of "Information Tech-
nology" discipline was taught at the Faculty of Foreign Philology (FFP) - 104 stu-
dents, Faculty of Translation (FT) – 61 students, Faculty of Psychology, History and
Sociology (FPHS) – 28 students.
Table 3. The implementation of Berk’s teaching strategies in the course "Information Technol-
ogy"
Characteristic The implementation of educational strategy
of Net Generation
Tech savvy The virtual discipline environment was created with the system of
distance learning ksuonline.ksu.ks.ua located on a MOODLE plat-
form. This system allows developing a course with such elements as
glossaries, wikis, multimedia clips, presentations, tests, blogs, fo-
rums, etc.
Teamwork and coop- Some tasks are complex and presuppose collaboration, while their
eration execution the cognitive interpersonal communication and interaction
of all participants progress. An important stage is to prepare a group
of students to work together. To ensure about students’ readiness for
cooperation teacher should arrange Ice braking, team-building and
communicative exercise (up to 5 minutes) at the beginning and at the
end of lesson. Teacher, who works in the computer classroom, usu-
ally recognizes his students primarily "from the back." Therefore,
such exercise facilitates personal contact with the group, which is
especially important while teaching short disciplines.
Interested in multime- The discipline content was developed and designed considering
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Characteristic The implementation of educational strategy
of Net Generation
dia, "visual" communi- students' interest in "visual communication" and multimedia. Video-
cation clips and presentations were added to each theme. The tasks and
manuals contain minimum of text information and maximum of
graphics and illustrations. Teachers included such elements as blogs
and forums.
Rely on search engines. In adding to use search engines during the course students active
Multitasks on every- work with Google services as Google.Drive, Google.sites, etc. This
thing satisfies the interest in creating online content and allows simultane-
ously work with several documents. It’s also an efficient tool of
collective activity organization.
Retention in the profes- Organization of students’ activity is a process of consistent model-
sion ing of professional activity of specialists under learning conditions.
The students of teaching specialties create educational games, tests,
documents, tables that are useful in their professional practice. The
results of the work are evaluated not only technical element, but also
educational one. Also such task as creating a presentation "My
choice" (students aimed to describe situation of their professional
choice, analyze their present achievements and capacities, goals and
dreams, ways to attain them) and collective writing of mind map
"Modern teacher” were added.
Emotionally open Tasks are person-centered and presuppose creation unique results
that will describe student’s own lifestyle, attitude and etc. This ap-
proach helps decrease the quantity of plagiarisms and contributes to
the development of their creative abilities.
Each student’s work passes through formative assessment: self-
appraisal, social assessment, teacher’s assessment.
Such tasks as making clouds of words, mind maps, playing learning games are
relevant to professional and educational discipline orientation. In addition, they
presuppose creative activity and can be easily adapted to a group work.
Poll Results of 2012-2013 academic year at Faculty of Pre-School and Elementary
Education are comparable with poll results published one year earlier. The quality of
teaching materials on KsuOnline highly appreciated by students, average score was
9.29 in 2011 and 9.16 in 2012-2013 out of 10. The novelty of lectures was assessed as
7.59 in 2011 and 6.84 in 2012-2013, the novelty of practical tasks had 7.64 and 7.39
respectively.
The students’ preferences about the most interesting and useful for future
professional tasks have changed. In both of these categories the task "Creating
didactic game" leads. Making a poster "It's interesting to know," creation of "Site
Class" and creation of online poll follow in the rating. These tasks we preserved in the
updated version of the discipline "Information Technology". As a result, new version
of "Information Technology" discipline has the following structure:
Lesson 1. Registration on KSUOnline, taking an entrance poll and test.
Presentation "My choice" with the following structure:
1. My strengths and weaknesses (academic, creative, personal, individual aspects).
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2. My goals, objectives and deadlines (to 2020 year).
3. My completed tasks.
4. A letter from You yourself in 2020.
Lesson 2. Creating a class site on Google Sites (Students add, delete pages, edit
them and insert pictures and text, change site’s design). Taking a poll “NET Gener
profile Scale".
Lesson 3. Creating a poll on Google Drive and inserting it to the site.
Lesson 4. Creating a cloud of words (Tagxedo service), publishing pictures with a
cloud of words and writing an assignment for the pupils on the "Homework” site
page. Changing assignments with the word clouds and its execution.
Lesson 5. Creation educational games with triggers or hyperlinks in
MS PowerPoint.
Lesson 6. Social expertise of the games (organized with Google Drive – a
spreadsheet). Watching the movie "The image of the modern student” by Michael
Wesch (Kansas State University, 2007). Creating a collective essay "How I like to
learn" in online document on Google drive.
Lesson 7. Co-creation of mind map "Modern teacher." Taking final poll and test.
Making a poster “It’s interesting to know” and contributing to wiki page
“Communication in the network” are for independent work.
Returning to the problem of assessment, it should be noted that in presentation
"My Choice" 68 students described their school successes and achievements
considering them as the next step in their professional development, but some
students evaluate these achievements as formal, not real:
"To the moment of leaving school I had about 60 letters of honor in my
"collection". But I understand they only have formed my ability to learn
and now mean nothing".
It’s necessary to change assessment system shifting the emphasis from control to
formative function for strengthen the motivation. In addition it’s necessary to vary
teacher’s assessment with self-assessment and social assessment due to teacher’s
criteria. Students can determine the quality of the work due to criteria and assess
technical realization, structure, relevance to age of pupils, subject, design, quality of
illustrations, literacy, etc. This forced students to think about the quality of their work
while creation it.
Social expertise has stimulating, diagnostic and formational functions. A wish to
get social appreciation motivates to create high-quality bright individual works. Such
way of assessment forms critical perception of the information. A student with low
self-esteem at first is afraid that his group mates will assess not his work but his
person, but it has never happen, all students are aimed to be objective and
independent judges.
The social aspect is a priority for a new generation. They tend to have a
relationship regardless of the field of interaction. Education is not an exception. If the
teacher does not build the relationship consciously, it usually takes the worst form. A
teacher should know that a grade is no longer a sufficient motivation for the positive
attitude of the student to the discipline, especially in the pass-fail system. It is clear
that students often associate the discipline with teacher’s personality. The high quality
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executed tasks show not only an attempt to get a high grade but sympathy to a
teacher. In computer disciplines social aspect is often nearly absent or poorly
developed: most of the time students work individually on the computers.
Fig. 6. Increasing students’ achievements by the method of formative assessment
The times of detached teacher have passed. Today’s successful teacher can easily
contact with the audience in a short time, acts as a partner, friend and a leader.
During the course, we found that the most third-year students have lack of
communication. For example, at first lesson after the game "Introduction", we asked
all students to tell us about their three small victories. Such "victories" were often met
with utter surprise of the group. It was uncovered that the students' ability to learn is
directly connected with their sense of self-confidence and positive mood.
Obviously, a success of training approach strongly depends on a teacher
personality and his skills in training and teambuilding. Therefore, the authors of this
paper have selected games and exercises that do not require special teacher’s skills
and knowledge or any additional devices.
Training elements in students’ groups of different teachers’ specialties and years of
study had different reaction. Some students expressed stunning and rejection: "Why
should I do that? It is not serious." despite the fact that they had finished Innovative
Teaching Methods and Technologies discipline, training exercise was an
extraordinary situation. One of the teachers said describing her experience: "Third-
year students look so serious, that sometimes I feel scared to come to the classroom,
as if teachers and students have switched their roles...”. We find it particularly
important to use the elements of training and communicative techniques working with
students of teaching specialties. Present students are future teachers who are taught
traditionally. In several years, they’ll copy one of teaching styles they have seen. It is
important to implement innovative techniques and give to students a chance to test
them in practice.
Another important improvement in the organization of the discipline was using of
open online document on GoogleDrive among teachers. Each of the teachers
contributed to planning, selection of training exercise and other notes. After each
lesson, teachers made a record in “a discipline online diary” to describe in free form
results of the lesson, such as the most common student mistakes, teaching and
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technical problems, positive situations, questions from the students, etc. Keeping a
discipline diary had a great success. Teaching has become more effective and
convenient, the level of awareness and collaboration among teachers has risen, so
now teachers create and use it in other disciplines.
4 Results and Discussion
Developed approaches allowed us to improve a range of disciplines including
"Information Technology", which is taught for students of all teacher specialties. We
also applied them to following disciplines: "Introduction to Information Technology"
(for future teachers of elementary school and Computer Science, the 1st year of
studiy), "Fundamentals of Computer Science and Applied Linguistics" (translators,
the 2nd year of study), and “Office Computer Technology” (programmers, the 1st
year of studies).
Students expressed their positive attitude verbally in the classroom and several
students sent e-mails with gratitude after finishing the discipline.
The results of the final poll confirmed their appreciation.
Fig. 7. Word cloud composed of students' comments about IT discipline
5 Conclusions and Outlook
Thus we have obtained the following results:
1. Discussed and analyzed characteristics of generation Net students;
2. Highlighted the contradiction between the characteristic of today's students and
traditional ways of ICT teaching;
3. The approaches to resolve these contradictions are found and implemented in
teaching practice.
In the future we plan to expand the list of pedagogical specialties to which the up-
dated version of the course "Information Technology" will be taught and improve
other disciplines according to the proposed approaches.
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