8 Tips Entrepreneurs Teach University Courses Engaging Screenagers
8 Tips Entrepreneurs Teach University Courses Engaging Screenagers
Entrepreneurs, do you really want to know what technology behavior changes are coming?
Great artists don’t paint from others descriptions, you will want to observe Engaging Screenagers first hand as they are leading the technology change tsunami we are experiencing all around the world.
What is the best way to observe, ask questions, and interact with Engaging Screenagers?
One of the best ways to observe the newest mobile tech sharing behaviors of Engaging Screenagers is to teach a university freshman, year-1 general education (core) class (best based on your entrepreneurial interests) at your local university to see how Engaging Screenagers are changing.
What am I talking about?
Yesterday, I blogged about how entrepreneurs can learn so much by watching the behaviours of Engaging Screenagers using their mobile devices.
Where would you observe the most Engaging Screenagers sharing and interacting with their devices?
Yes, at a university, and as you think about it, the sole purpose of universities is for individual students and collective campus, to learn, share, and understand society and the world.
A part of that university learning is exploring, and sharing without too much parental influence or control.
Based on having freedom and a social environment, those Engaging Screenagers are going to be sharing information, trying new things, and exploring the world through the Internet.
Imagine how much you can learn as you observe their sharing behaviors.
As I said yesterday by watching Engaging Screenagers I actually came up with home new system of teaching and learning because I saw their behaviour everyday.
For you entrepreneurs, though you can start watching how they use their mobile devices what they’re doing with those mobile devices how they sharing information
What information is popular or shared most and start asking him why why are you doing it?
I think the students why is this shared more than that image?
What details about this image or post it makes it more attractive to share then a comparable one?
By using eWorkbooks (I talk about these in several blogs) you can actually start asking questions and keeping records.
As a teacher you will want to be doing A/B testing (sometimes called ‘split testing‘) anyway, so now you can do your A/B testing with your students and your teaching materials as well as examples outside of the classroom.
You can do the same with focus groups by giving groups of students discussion topics and ask them to record their ideas in eWorkbooks as they progress through the process.
One of the great benefits of eWorkbooks in university classes is you can include exercises for students to curate examples, and as they curate, your students are questioning, testing, challenging, synthesizing, and thinking critically.
As you observe their behavior, you will see their newer behavior patterns that may become common in a few years.
For example, before smartphones became popular my students reported being on facebook a few hours a day, but when the smartphones came out my students reported being on facebook for 8-9-10 hours a day so I started asking them why do you like facebook so much?
They loved going online not only because they could connect with their friends, but also they were exploring, finding, commenting, sharing: they were curating their own personal museums of artifacts.
I wondered how to get them to satisfy their curiosities in the classroom and found eWorkbooks were great for guidingtheir curation behaviors.
Now days, you see this same behavior from much of our society on chat apps, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Further on this example, even though I saw students on Facebook for most of the day, it took another 2-3 years before I frequently saw people on fb with their mobile devices for that much sharing when I was on the train on my commute to work.
Below are some best practices that make observing my teaching Engaging Screenagers in university more valuable for entrepreneurs.
1st) Teach at a regular university and although a community college is okay, community colleges tend to have more working students and fewer students who are hanging out, being social, and sharing content.
2nd) Teach daytime courses, not evening or weekend courses,
This is because evening courses (I have been taking evening and weekend courses on and off for the last 30 years) have students who work,and working students are not as inclined to be sharing with other students as much.
3rd) Although students pay attention better when they have a class first thing in the morning (if they aren’t sleeping that is,) you want to teach a class that is scheduled between 10am and 2pm, because they’ve had a few hours to be social and share new ideas with friends.
After 3pm though, many students rush off to part time jobs.
4th) You will want to teach a general education course because these provide the most diverse range of students interests and majors.
What I mean is if you teach an engineering course to engineering majors, you will only see the behaviors of engineering students.
But if you teach a general education course you will have many different majors in the same room and the variety of students will give you a wider range of behaviours to observe.
5th) When you’re observing Engaging Screenagers you will want to watch them before class after class and during break, but during break is when I spent most of my time asking questions and observing their sharing behaviors.
Although before and after class observations give a lot of valuable and behavioral information, some students are rushing to other classes, etc.
Also, I liked spending time observing students’ behaviors in the university canteen, and although the spoke Cantonese (here in Hong Kong so I couldn’t understand what they were saying) I could still observe their behaviors.
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6th) Have your students use eWorkbooks so students are using their devices during class to take notes and to find examples and you can include a few “real life” questions to get students’ opinions.
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6th) Have your students use eWorkbooks so students are using their devices during class to take notes and to find examples and you can include a few “real life” questions to get students’ opinions.
7th) Use eWorkbooks to crowdsource examples.
When you have a diverse group of students curating examples of the learning content you will get many examples from different points of view.
How valuable would all those different examples be to you as an entrepreneur?
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8th) Walk around your classroom as students are curating examples and this can give you an extra level of observation.
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8th) Walk around your classroom as students are curating examples and this can give you an extra level of observation.
As you walk around answering questions (students ask a lot more questions when they are curating) and supporting your students, you can observe their behaviors while they curate examples based on their own interests.
Encouraging students to find examples of the teaching content related to their own interests or study majors, gives you a great deal of information on how students in different majors will curate and share information differently.
When I first starting to do this I saw it was great for me to just be watch their behaviors and then see what information they would submit in their eWorkbooks.
As I mentioned before my students loved going online in fb, etc, because they were curating their own personal museums of artifacts.
That is why I started adding curating exercises in eWorkbooks, and after the initial resistance to new exercises, I got an explosion of questions, explosions of discussions, and higher student evaluations of my teaching.
Also, my students were earning higher marks as they understood the content more than when I gave them my own examples.
Also, my students were earning higher marks as they understood the content more than when I gave them my own examples.
This actually lead me to my first research in ePortfolios which I will expand on more in my blog tomorrow.
Wouldn’t you entrepreneurs love to know how the mass of people are going to behave and share information in the future?
Doesn’t it make sense that Engaging Screenagers, with the least commitment to past tradition could be leading behavior change in the world?
Won’t you be missing out on this valuable key glimpse of future buyer behavior, and won’t missing that put you behind your competitors?
Entrepreneurs teach courses to observe future behaviors.
Remember, come join tomorrow to see more Improving Your Engagement with Screenagers and others inspirational experiences and ideas for Optimal Engagement in the ScreenAge.
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