ANZCA Education Seminar 2010
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| When |
Jul 22, 2010 from 12:30 PM to 01:00 PM |
| Where | Auditorium, ANZCA House, 630 St Kilda Road, Melbourne |
| Contact Name | Claire Spooner |
| Contact Phone | 03 9510 6299 |
| Attendees |
This seminar will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in medical education, including trainee and specialist anaesthetists, supervisors, and ANZCA staff. The concept behind the ANZCA Education Seminars is to provide a forum for staff at ANZCA to discuss areas of educational development or innovation that may be outside their immediate area. The primary focus is therefore on keeping abreast of educational trends which may be outside the usual realm of experience at ANZCA. External participants are welcome. |
Educating the Net Generation:
Challenging Assumptions of Digital Nativeness’
Presented by Associate Professor Gregor Kennedy
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Date: Thursday, 22 July 2010
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm (30-40 min presentation followed by 20-30 min discussion)
Venue: Auditorium, ANZCA House – tea, coffee and orange juice will be provided
It is hard to ignore the hype about the ‘Net Generation’ of ‘Digital Native’ students who are entering University today. These students are claimed to have a natural affinity with information and communications technologies and are assumed to be heavily reliant on ‘social’ or Web 2.0 technologies. This presentation will draw together some of the major findings from a three-year project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council that took a critical approach to the Net Generation in Higher Education. Associate Professor Kennedy will present data on students’ use of technology and, based on a cluster analysis, will propose that there are discernable ‘types’ of student technology users. He will also review the implementation of a collaborative writing exercise, in which 750 first-year students were asked to use a wiki to create, publish and share material in their psychology studies. He will conclude by discussing some of the general implications these findings have for how we think about students’ technology habits, and how we can more usefully employ emerging technologies in education.
Dr Gregor Kennedy is an Associate Professor in Health Informatics and Virtual Environments in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science at the University of Melbourne. His has developed strong programs of research in the areas of educational technology and human-computer interaction, particularly in higher education and health professional settings. He has recently led a number of large-scale, empirical investigations of so-called ‘Net Generation’ students, and these have provided significant insight into how students’ use technology based-tools in higher education. His current research interests include the use of 3D haptic, immersive virtual environments for education and training, the use of emerging technologies for learning, the development of digital literacy, and interactions in intersected virtual and physical environments.
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