Multitasking

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Multitasking

• Teaching digital natives
• Challenges

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In this session we will talk upon

• Digital natives versus digital immigrants/travelle
  rs
• How do the digital natives learn?
• The challenges we face
• Multitasking pros and cons

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The world is changing

• Analog
• Tethered
• Isolated
• Generic
• Consuming
• Closed

• Digital
• Mobile
• Connected
• Personal
• Creating
• Open

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• The worlds rate of change increases while
  educations remain slow
• The disconnect brings challenges for teachers at
  all levels

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• Are we too mature and feel disconnected with our
  students since we are digital immigrants?
• Most of our students in our classroom (if not
  all) are digital natives

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Students assumptions

• Theres always been MTV
• Popcorn has always been cooked in a microwave
  oven
• They cannot fathom without a remote control
• They think every commercial on TV has a website
  at the bottom of the screen
• CtrlAltDel as basic as ABC
• The Web has always been an on-line thing
• They often email or text their friends
• They often update their autobiographies on
  Facebook or MySpace
• They listen to their ipods while making their
  research on Wikipedia

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Digital shift

• Our students have changed radically. Todays
  students are no longer the people our educational
  system was designed to teach.
• Marc Prensky

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The digital natives

• Digital natives Net generation Y generation
  Millennials Echo boomers Boomlets
• Born after 1980
• Racially and ethically diverse
• Highly connected and technologically savvy
• See technology as an essential part of their life
• Watch this

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The digital natives

• Prefer multi-tasking and quick, non-linear access
  to information
• Are visually oriented
• Are highly networked, interactive and social
• Increasing mobile
• Have a low tolerance for lectures
• Prefer active learning rather than passive
  learning
• Rely heavily on communication technologies to
  access information and to carry out social and
  professional interactions

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The digital natives

• The 1st generation to be the producers of content
  not only consumers

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Comfort zones

• Net Gen Students
• Multitasking
• Pictures, sound, video
• Random access
• Interactive and networked
• Engaging
• Spontaneous

• Teachers
• Single or limited tasks
• Text
• Linear, logical, sequential
• Independent and individual
• Disciplined
• Deliberate

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Digital

• Immigrants
• teach by
• Delivering content
• Presenting and telling
• Linear stories
• One thing at a time
• One size fits all
• Face-to-face

• Natives
• learn from
• Being engaged
• Doing and gameplay
• Random access and exploring options
• Multitasking
• Lots of choices
• Going online

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21st Century skills

• Knowing the right thing to do
• Behaving ethically
• Critical thinking
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Judgement

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21st Century skills

• 2. Getting it done
• Goal setting
• Planning
• Self-direction
• Self-evaluation

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21st Century skills

• 3. Doing it with others
• Communicating/interacting (with
  individuals/groups)
• Communicating/interacting (with machines)
• Communicating/interacting (with world audience)

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21st Century skills

• 4. Doing it creatively
• Creative thinking
• Designing
• Playing
• Finding your voice

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Multitasking
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• multitasking
• BrE / ?m?lti't??sk?? /
• NAmE / ?m?lti'tæsk?? /
• noun
• uncountable
• 1 ( computing ) the ability of a computer to
  operate several programs at the same time
• 2 the ability to do several things at the same
  time
• Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 8th edition

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Multitasking in teaching English
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• If I had made any discoveries, it was owing more
  to patient attention than to any other talent
• Isaac Newton

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Writers past and present

• What do we Know?
• What do we Want to learn?
• What have we Learnt?

K W L

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Three famous writers

• Think of two books you have read recently.
• Who wrote them?
• What were they about?
• Why did you read them?
• Discuss with a partner

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Three famous writers

• William Shakespeare
• Agatha Christie

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Multi-tasking and related skills
Preliminary preparation discussing the project
Reading
Speaking
Listening
Writing
Discuss project aims, length, schedule, etc
Functions requesting, Asking for
information Interactional functions Initiating,
topic changing, Interrupting, etc. Discussing,
negotiating, etc.
Listening for gist Listening for
specific Information Listening for
overall meaning
Writing letters, reports, notes, invitations,
etc. Writing extended, connected text
Skimming, scanning Following patterns of
reference, Extracting data from Timetables,
charts, etc.
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Multi-tasking and related skills
Accessing information from websites, doing
library research, reading newspaper,
magazine articles, etc.
Interviewing, QA session after outside speakers
talk, decision making with colleagues, planning
schedules, etc.
Interviewing-understanding Interviewers answers,
Following speakers talk, Understanding
colleagues in discussions and
planning Sessions, etc.
Writing to companies to ask permission, making
notes on information gained from websites,
articles, etc.
Language feedback teacher or peer led.
Language feedback teacher or peer led.
Language monitor Vocabulary and grammar cards
Presentation, spoken report on the project, final
spoken activity, etc.
Written report on the project Production of
posters, artwork, etc.
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Tips to effective multitasking

• Accept that you can do only one task at a time
  effectively. I feel that processing in brain is
  sequential.
• Prioritize your tasks. I would say this is key to
  your success.
• Plan every task you take up and break down into
  smaller milestones which are logical ends to the
  quantum of effort you put into it.

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• Estimate a rough schedule to finish these
  milestones. Chart out the inputs, resources
  needed and the needed output for these
  milestones.
• When you finish a milestone, bring it to a
  logical end. Make sure that everything is in
  place so that you can come back after some time
  and continue with this task.

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• At times, it helps if you slow down your pace of
  working. If you rush up for everything, soon you
  will get exhausted. Deliberately slow down and
  you will feel good. Above everything, life is
  about enjoying every moment.

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