5 Takeaways for Collaborative Classrooms Engaging Screenagers

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5 Takeaways for Collaborative Classrooms Engaging Screenagers

I’m often asked how to make a classroom collaborative where the Engaging Screenagers (Aren’t we all Screenagers?) are united and supporting one another.
My question is, “Did you ever have a teacher who was great at getting most all the students (even the shy ones who hated all their other teachers) to learn and enjoy the learning?"

Over the past 20 years, my research into classroom engagement has focused on several techniques teachers can use to collaborate Engaging Screenagers in their classrooms.
Based on the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world we live in, teachers need all the collaboration they can get.
A few days ago I read a B2B marketing article by Sean Callahan on LinkedIn, and it reminded me of what engagement tools teachers can learn from marketing practices in terms of relating, inspiring, and motivating.
I’ve spent 25 studying Optimal Engagement focusing on customer service, sales, marketing, and most important of all (for me at least) learners in the classroom.


DrWarren sharing research on Engaging Screenagers Engagement with devices conference talk
DrWarren sharing research on Engaging Screenagers Engagement with devices in a conference session







By observing, practicing, surveying, and using tracking and monitoring eWorkbooks in my courses and training many other teachers, trainers, parents, and sales managers, I’ve found a few high value takeaway practices the help greatly.
1) The Takeaway: Instead of drily explaining your learning content, think of how to tell a compelling story, have them curate examples, images, or videos to illustrate each benefit.
Give them eWorkbooks with interactive tasks like curating examples, photos, or videos that encourage them to take responsibility to make the content come alive for them. (optimal engagement)
2) The Takeaway: Think of channels of media you use as part of your bigger picture—let multiple channels work together to guide your students learning.
In the past teachers would show a video in what we called joint media viewing and there may be some discussion. (junk engagement) 
But today, you can include many different media in your eWorkbooks to give your learners more channels that benefit their different preferences. 

Now you can add links to several different media, or even include videos, for example, in your eWorkbooks so students can rewatch sections they want for more detail and have much more rich Moments of Growth sharing in discussions with group mates. (optimal engagement)
3) The Takeaway: Listen to your students (and their parents) to give them learning and information how they want it, not how you want to give it. 

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Also, use eWorkbooks to encourage them to relate the learning content to their own interests, as this can be a great way to bring the learning Moments of Growth to life for many students. (optimal engagement)
4) The Takeaway: Remember your internal marketing, establish firm commitments for new initiatives within your school before releasing your student (parent, public)-facing messaging. 
When I first started using eWorkbooks, I was the only instructor and it was a big struggle because my students kept asking for me to teach their other instructors to use them. 

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Although I loved sharing with others how eWorkbooks dramatically change the classroom from teacher to learner centered, and that change can be too much for many Asian teachers who have experienced teacher centered teaching all of their lives. (junk engagement)
The key turning point was that my students loved the Moments of Growth learning with eWorkbooks and they weregetting much better marks, so after a while other instructors started asking me what I was doing. (optimal engagement)
5) The Takeaway: Think of your story and the value you give as a teacher in the larger context of the learner experience—how will their lives be better? and how can they apply what they learned to improve our society?
Also ask yourself,
  • What are my learners inspired to do after they listen to my lesson?
  • What will excite my learners to curate their own images, examples, or videos?
  • What will motivate my learners to continue and even finish watching my YouTube watch list, or read that article, or write that paper, or submit that blog?
In your eWorkbooks what hooks can compel your Engaging Screenagers to collaborate and interact within your learning community and Moments of Growth? (optimal engagement)
Remember, all day every day, the marketing world spends time thinking about how to attract your students’ attention and get them to take action.
I’m not saying we, as teachers, need to be marketers, but what I am saying is we, as teachers, can learn from the tools marketers use to attract and motivate.
Wouldn’t it be great if educators could embrace all these powerful tools to support Engaging Screenagers?
Couldn’t teachers be given enough space to test eWorkbooks in their own learning spaces to support modern learners?
Isn’t the “glue like” slow adoption of these tools with eWorkbooks penalizing our learners—those who will be leading our future?

Embrace engagement tools with eWorkbooks for great learning.

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All the Best, Warren
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