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Four local colleges learn about teaching "digital natives"
11.12.09
Today’s students have grown up with the Internet. They’ve never known a time when the Web wasn’t there as a resource for both learning and entertainment. As a college faculty member, how does this impact the way you teach and how your students learn?
A teaching effectiveness conference sponsored by Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley was recently held to explain how college-age “digital natives” learn and the implications this has on the way in which faculty must teach this generation of student learners.
Appalachia College Association Chief Instructional Technologist Martin Ramsay delivered the plenary titled, “Digital Natives are Always On.”
SUNY Potsdam faculty members Martin A. Walker and Peter M. McCoy; Clarkson University faculty members Tom Langen and Joseph Duemer; SUNY Canton faculty member Brian K. Harte; and St. Lawrence University faculty member Amy Hauber shared their best practices for engaging college students in learning.
“I always look forward to the Associated Colleges conference because it brings together colleagues from many different fields and multiple campuses. The conversation is always incredibly stimulating and thought provoking,” said Dr. Peter M. McCoy, chair of music education at SUNY Potsdam.
“This year’s conference focused on aspects of teaching and learning with current technologies but the best part was the focus on the students – who they are, where they’re coming from, how they learn. I came away with a renewed sense of optimism about my ability to harness new technologies to meet my students ‘where they live’ and enhance their learning opportunities,” said Dr. McCoy.
Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley is an educational consortium, a regional multipurpose organization that fosters cooperative endeavors. The consortium oversees and supports programs and projects in a range of academic and administrative areas. These endeavors are organized to augment and complement institutional programs without supplanting them or reducing their individual importance.
For more information about Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, contact Executive Director Anneke Larrance at (315) 267-3331 or larranaj@potsdam.edu or visit www.associatedcolleges.org/.