“I Tube do You Tube?’- How to Use ‘You Tube” as a Student Engagement

Tool for the Millennial Student

By: La Tishia Horrell M.S.Asst. Dept. Chair Social Sciences & Humanities Region 6

What do you know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related

‘Millennial’ or ‘Digital Native Student’

Generation born between 1981-2002

Socially NetworkedTeam OrientedMulti-taskersGrew up with technology readily

assessable (Elam, Stratton, & Gibson, 2007)

‘Millennial’ or ‘Digital Native Student’

Like active learning and engagement in classroom (Wilson 2004)

Have a preference for multi-media learning (Skiba 2007)

Appreciate the use of teamwork, experiential activities and technology (McGlynn 2005)

Millennials & Technology

Incorporation of technology into teaching by faculty is expected and desired (Wilson

2004)

Have little patience with educational methods they see as outdated (Taylor 2007)

Will use the internet as an academic resource and database for knowledge (Wilson 2004)

Spent their entire lives surrounded by and using technology (Prensky 2001)

Why use ‘You Tube’

A social phenomenon that cannot be ignored by educators (Skiba 2007)

You Tube is one of the fastest growing websites (Trier 2007)

You Tube provides an opportunity for students to be creators not just viewers (Adam & Mowers 2007 and Skiba 2007)

Can create learning communities, stimulate discussion, and provide a means for active learning (McGlynn 2005 and Skiba 2007)

Why use ‘You Tube’

Helps students to relate life experience to material in which they are learning (McGlynn 2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3U3kiaelQc

Provides a number of ways to enhance teaching

You Tube has a variety of resources for any discipline (Mullen & Wedwick 2008)

No longer have to rely on tangible resources which may or may not be in use by others

You Tube can be used by multiple instructors at the same time (Mullen & Wedwick 2008)

The WHEN of ‘You Tube’ To stimulate class discussion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzPn9rsPcY

To gage learning and engage students in learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=znAzMkn5Ey0 To create a sense of community (Skiba 2007)

The WHEN of ‘You Tube’

To heighten a sense of student creation/experimentation (Skiba 2007)

Group projects Alternative to written papers

To combat the staleness of a traditional lecture-based classroom Engagement in active learning

For dramatization and demonstration Readily accessible

Ideas for the Classroom Class Starter Discussion Trigger Visual portrayal of Concept Discussion Board Link

https://dl.ivytech.edu/

Creative Project/Assignment http://www.youtube.com/

Embedded into presentation External links on Blackboard

The HOW of ‘You Tube’

http://www.youtube.com http://keepvid.com/

Copy and paste You Tube URL Save File Has a media player on site for download

http://www.downloadyoutubevideos.com/ Copy and paste You Tube URL Save File

http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10267151.html

References Adam, A. & Mowers, H. (2007). You tube comes to the

classroom. School Library Journal. 53, 22. Elam, C., Stratton, T., & Gibson, D.,D. (2007) Welcoming a new

generation to college: the millennial students. Journal of College Admission. 195, 20-25.

McGlynn, A., P. (2005) Teaching millennials, our newest cultural cohort. Education Digest. 71, 12-16.

Mullen, R. & Wedwick, L. (2008) Avoiding the digital abyss: getting started in the classroom with you tube, digital stories and blogs. The Clearing House. 82, 66-69.

Prensky, M. (2001) Digital native, digital immigrants, part III: do they really think differently? Retrieved November 5, 2009, from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf

References Con’t

Skiba, D., J. (2007). Nursing education 2.0: youtube. Nursing Education Perspectives . 28,100-102.

Taylor, M. (2008). Meet the students: finding common ground between student and instructional goals. Retrieved November 5, 2008 from http://www.taylorprograms.org/images/HLC_paper_08.pdf

Trier, J. (2007) “Cool” engagements with youtube: part 1. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 50, 408-412.

Wilson, M., E. (2004) Teaching, learning, and millennial students. Directions for Student Services.106, 59-71